#Lessons Quotes

“I'm convinced that some of our greatest and most influential teachers show up in our lives disguised as people we resent or even despise.”

“Be in a state of gratitude for everything that shows up in your life. Be thankful for the storms as well as the smooth sailing. What is the lesson or gift in what you are experiencing right now? Find your joy not in what's missing in your life but in how you can serve.”

“If we could just go back the last two or three years and do our buying a little more carefully, why... we would be O.K.”

“Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.”

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.”

“What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.”

“I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was.”

“Transforma as tuas feridas em sabedoria!”

“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.”

“With every failure, every crisis, every difficult time, I say - What is this here to teach me? And as soon as you get the lesson, you get to move on. If you really get the lesson, you pass and you don't have to repeat the class.My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”

“Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream”

“Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.”

“Life is about growth and change. When you are no longer doing that — that is your whisper; that is your whisper that you are supposed to do something else.”

“Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.”

“A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.”

“I believe everyday your life speaks to you - through every experience, through the people you meet, and even through pain, fear and self-doubt.”

“If you're not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.”

“Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.”

“Nothing is more humbling than getting your ass kicked.”

“Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.”

“History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.”

“What if the idea of Mr. Right is completely false? What if there is no Mr. Wrong? What if every relationship-no matter how brief-contains a priceless lesson allowing you to grow and evolve into your grandest self?”

“There is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”

“Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays.”

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

“The lessons of experience are always learned too late.”

“I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.”