Mother Teresa
Missionary, Nun
"Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons."
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C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way."
Queen Elizabeth II
Monarch
"The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load."
T. S. Eliot
Poet, Playwright
"Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson."
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life."
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"When I was young, I was sure of many things; now there are only two things of which I am sure: one is, that I am a miserable sinner; and the other, that Christ is an all-sufficient Saviour. He is well-taught who learns these two lessons."
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"Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy."
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"One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton."
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"If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief."
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"Study your lessons, don't settle for less."
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"There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory."
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"I will not lose, for even in defeat/There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me"
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"A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage."
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"He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense."
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"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues."
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"Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?"
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"The biggest lesson I have learned is the stupendous importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you what you are; by changing our thoughts, we can change our lives."
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"Forget the failures. Keep the lessons."
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"One more lesson like that and I might just do a Weasley."
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"There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned."
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"All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess."
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"Lessons are not given, they are taken."
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"Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last."
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"The biggest lesson I’ve learned is, “It’s okay.” It’s okay for me to be kind to myself. It’s okay to be wrong. It’s okay to get mad. It’s ok to be flawed. It’s okay to be happy. It’s okay to move on."
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"Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten."
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