#lessons

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite. ↗

— Chad Harbach

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The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only need to achieve autonomy from your parents, find a moderately satisfying job, form a relationship, perhaps raise some children, watch the onset of mortality in your parents' generation and eventually in your own, until one day a fatal illness starts gnawing at your innards and you calmly go to the grave, shut the coffin and are done with the self-evident business of life. ↗

— Alain de Botton

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Life can be seen through several spectrums of light, but it’s the person who is doing the soul searching that defines what they may see. ↗

— Nadège Richards

#lessons-in-life #life #light #love #soul

There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#life-lessons #transformation #change

I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community. ↗

— Dick Van Dyke

#values #business

Mohammad never assigned himself a status more than a common man and a messenger of God. People had faith in him when he was surrounded by poverty and adversity and trusted him while he was the ruler of a great Empire. He was a man of spotless character who always had confidence in himself and in God's help. No aspect of his life remained hidden nor was his death a mysterious event. ↗

— M.H. Hyndman

#atheist #christian #confidence #death #empire

An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life. ↗

— Hervé Le Tellier

#life-lessons #reading #life

Nothing in this world happens by chance. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life

I was 4 when I started learning music. I still remember my first vocal class where I cried telling mum that I can never get it right. I’m glad she made me stick with it because she already knew what makes me happy even before I did. And gradually I realize that everyone has that point in life where we hit crossroads, had bunch of bad days and there’s different ways to deal with it, and the way I dealt with it was I just turned to music. ↗

— Manasa Rao

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I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more. ↗

— Dorothy Koomson

#life-lessons #change