"I don't mind if you forget me. Having learned my lesson, I never left an impression on anyone."
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"Trust the people -- that is the crucial lesson of history."
"I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen,but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons."
"The lessons of experience are always learned too late."
"All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned."
"I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated."
"No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time."
"God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons."
"The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live."
"Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost."
"Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die."
"You will fail many times but in failing you'll learn and in learning you'll find your way. Remember, there are no mistakes in life but only lessons, and lessons will keep on repeating until learned"
"Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man?"
"Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?"
"Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage."
"The best way to get trained is to get mentored - live or by reading or watching videos by masters. That way, you start executing based on lessons from the best."
"A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught."
"What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us."
"I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson."
"Take a good look at yourself before you criticise another, for what you see wrong in them, will also be a lesson for you."