#lessons

The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. But what about the benefits of living harmoniously among extremes? What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing? ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#life #life-lessons #life

Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way. ↗

— Jonathan Rosen

#life-lessons #death

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach. ↗

— Shania Twain

#betrayed #lessons #life #most #teach

I guess god simply wants me to meet many wrong people before I meet the right one. ↗

— Karla M. Nashar

#beauty

No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#cut #dance #did #dreams #go

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#called #day #day to day #lesson #lessons

Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#corruption #culture #education #harmony #humor

When preparing for a concert, I do lots of training. I work with a choreographer to create great moves and then I have to keep my voice strong with lessons. ↗

— Miley Cyrus

#concert #create #great #i #i do

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#depart #fall #god #great #leaf

It's good to look at life from the bottom up so you can see that things have risen above what they once were. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#life #life-lessons #outlook #perspective #progress