“'That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.'”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Stop repeating the same lesson, because you won't learn anything new that way.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Sometimes you have to choose badly in order to be able to identify what is good for you.”— R.H. Sin, amazon.com
“And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something e…”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“One day this will all make perfect sense. Trusting in this golden sunset that magically appeared in the middle of a rainstorm this evening. There is light in the dark. Sunsets in the storms. Beauty in the chaos. Lesson of the evening: don't lose faith.”— Rachel Brathen, instagram.com
“I’ve come to the conclusion that if having things turn out the way you wanted them to is a measure of a successful life, then some would say I’m a failure. The important thing is not to be bitter over life’s disappointments. Learn to let go of the past. And recognize that every day won’t be sunny, a…”— Whitey Durham, amazon.com
“Presently a serpent sought them out privately, and came to them walking upright, which was the way of serpents in those days. The serpent said the forbidden fruit would store their vacant minds with knowledge. So they ate it, which was quite natural, for man is so made that he eagerly wants to know;…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”— Katharine Weber, amazon.com
“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”— Roald Dahl, amazon.com
“Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most.”— Ellen Degeneres, books.google.com
“Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.”— Ellen Degeneres, books.google.com
“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”— Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.com
“All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com