Life Lesson Wisdom Quotes & Sayings

I will teach my son, that his desire to be great doesn't depend on those unfortunate enough to ignore their own. — Nikki Rowe

Without living, how can you know? Without knowing, how can you speak? — J.E. Seanachai

The spirituality of the soul is awakening of spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life continues even if no one has proven to us the shape and size of the Earth, even if no one has informed us about the composition of air and the depth of sky.
We will not float in weightlessness simply because we have not read the lesson on gravity. — Danail Hristov

Don't waste dollars counting cents. — Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want to feel the life and the body of great men who are long gone, go to their tombs or monuments; if you want to understand the real life and the wisdom of great men who are long gone, go to their libraries! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Don't try to smell the flowers without planting them. — Debasish Mridha

Curiosity can only be called "fear of the unknown" only when you are in your comfort zone. — Jury Nel

We cannot understand the Higher Wisdom. Later, well after the event, we may see the lesson contained in the event, and be truly grateful. We must, however, submit to what happens, accepting all that unfolds gracefully. This is the key. All your tragedies in life and in the theatre come about because of non-acceptance of the will of the Gods. Not my petty little ant-like will, but the Gods omnipotent will, let that will be done, I say. This is the beginning and end of the virtuous life. — Alan Jacobs

Listen until you're the smartest.
Learn until you're the wisest.
Live until you're the merriest.
Love until you're the kindest. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Life without death simply isn't life, but death — Juliet Daniel

Life is a sacred book. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A lamp kept on mound illumines the area; if kept in a pit, it is as if it were not. A virtue that is practised is a lamp that shines for all; good thoughts and good deeds have a way of influencing others. The gems of wisdom, the light of intuitive experience should not be kept away from fellow - men. They have to be shared, even at the cost od one's life. That was the lesson Jesus taught and symbolised. — Sathya Sai Baba

Don't make excuses for your mistakes.
Don't try to please your enemies.
Don't run from your responsibilities.
Don't force your opinions on others.
Don't complain about things you can change.
Don't compare yourself to anyone.
Don't let undeserving people into your life. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything. — Thomas M. Sterner

Your heart influences your art. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Think twice as much as others.
Study twice as much as others.
Work twice as much as others.
Give twice as much as others. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Charm will win you friends;
character will help you keep them.
Intelligence will win you success;
wisdom will help you keep it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

When you feel life at crossroads,
you need higher perspective view. — Toba Beta

Never cut down a tree whose shade you might need tomorrow. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Dare to seek answers to your questions. — Lailah Gifty Akita

And then a memory from Avalon surfaced in her mind, something she had not thought of for a decade; one of the Druids, giving instruction in the secret wisdom to the young priestesses, had said, If you would have the message of the Gods to direct your life, look for that which repeats, again and again; for this is the message given you by the Gods, the karmic lesson you must learn for this incarnation. It comes again and again until you have made it part of your soul and your enduring spirit. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

The most important lesson in life is to learn to love those who are hurting you. Because those people who are hurting you, in reality they are hurting themselves. Be kind to them. — Debasish Mridha

You cannot lose if you have learned one new lesson.
You cannot lose if you have helped one new person.
You cannot lose if you have overcome one new obstacle. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't ruin a good opportunity fixating on a bad one. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Smile more.
Laugh more.
Love more.
Shine more. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Sorrow has a great refining influence on our sacred souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Never make a promise you can't keep.
Never look down on a person you can't help.
Never solicit a question you can't answer.
Never judge a person you don't understand.
Never condemn a person you don't know. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Pebbles that bring you joy are better than diamonds that bring you sorrow. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Humans are the greatest sacred resources. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Lesson learned: bad things happen to good people. — Amy Zhang

For a modern ruler the laws of conservation and transformation of energy, when the vivifing stream takes its source, the ways it wends its course in nature, and how, under wisdom and knowledge, it may be intertwined with human destiny, instead of careering headlong to the ocean, are a study at least as pregnant with consequences to life as any lesson taught by the long unscientific history of man. — Frederick Soddy

Some people are not meant to be a part of our lives forever. Some people visit our lives for a brief period, not to stay in it, but to show us something that we have been unable to see it ourselves. In the form of a gift, a lesson or a piece of wisdom, they change the course of our life and help us to fulfill our destiny. — Purba Chakraborty

The worst illness is to live life that others want you to live and best medicine to this illness is Awareness of Death — Vijay Dhameliya

A birth we embark on a good journey, seeking a destination of happiness. The journeys on our life-road facilitate development of our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual states-of-being, into a way of true power and wisdom. The Heart-center power, expressed as happiness and love, will guide us upward on a path away from frustration, bitter toil and travail. These journeys are directed inward, not outwardly in material mementos of ego and possession. The lesson is relearning that which has been suppressed and forgotten, in ourselves, since our earliest childhood. — R. Carlos Nakai

Seek to be the smartest in a room, not the loudest. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Be wise like water and adapt, adjust, and appreciate whomever you are with and wherever you are. — Debasish Mridha

Learn how to learn...then start learning — Munia Khan

Wisdom holds a candle to experience, but you've got to take the candle and walk alone. — Lauren Kate

At the school of wisdom, mistake is not just a lesson but, a laboratory — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

This moment is our greatest treasure. We cannot replay the past events. We have no control over future events. — Lailah Gifty Akita

One more word about giving instruction as to what the world ought to be. Philosophy in any case always comes on the scene too late to give it. As the thought of the world, it appears only when actuality is already there cut and dried after its process of formation has been completed ...
When philosophy paints its grey in grey, then has a shape of life grown old. By philosophy's grey in grey it cannot be rejuvenated but only understood. The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Wisdom stems from personal accountability. We all make mistakes; own them ... learn from them. Don't throw away the lesson by blaming others. — Steve Maraboli

I believe that people come into your life and then some go.I also think there's a purpose as to why they were in your life at all.Each one takes a piece of you when they go.Some leave pieces of themselves with you.Sometimes its's wisdom, or maybe,it's a lesson. — Shey Stahl

Wisdom is finding out that a cobra is deadly; without first having to lose one's life. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it. — Bret Easton Ellis

Do not worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life can least be found in comfort and much more in uncomfortable situations of life. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The surest antidote for anxiety is to always do your best and have complete trust in God. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

After his experience with Minos, Nico realized that most spectres held only as much power as you allowed them to have. They pried into your mind, using fear or anger or longing to influence you. Nico had learned to shield himself. Sometimes he could even turn the tables and bend ghosts to his will. — Rick Riordan

Hear others, and you will be heard.
Understand others, and you will be understood.
Help others, and you be will be helped.
Love others, and you will be loved. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You may be going through a storm right now, but understand that the sun will shine again. It is during the storm that you learn the lesson. You can either let it make you or break you. Take this time to reflect on your choices in life. Many times we create our own storms by the choices we make. Right now while you are in the midst, decide to not go backwards, move forward with more positivity. — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Young hearts too often have tunnel vision. — K.J. Farnham

Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must - if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdom - we must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith. — Margaret Sanger

learn the lessons before they are over. Life is a composition of series and sequence of lessons. Each lesson comes with its own lessons to learn. our failure to learn the lessons of one shall be the reasons to learn another lesson with similar lessons. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I look at life as an adventure. Each new chapter brings new opportunities. — Michelle M. Pillow

Don't resist change if it is to your advantage.
Don't ruin a good opportunity fixating on a bad one.
Don't burn down bridges you will need to cross tomorrow.
Don't expect other people to solve your problems.
Don't let what's behind you dictate what's ahead of you.
Don't lose sleep over anyone who doesn't lose sleep over you.
Don't let life's small arrows wound your big soul. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I remember a time in a class on a cold winter morning a Japanese girl came with a surgical mask & I thought "wow people would go to extremes NOT to get sick in Japan" afterwards on a break I approached her & asked in a cynical manner: why the mask? Are you afraid of catching a cold? & then she said "in Japan you use it when YOU are under the weather & you don't want other people to get sick, it is the polite thing to do" wow! that's a lesson I will never forget — Pablo

I spent as much time as I could with Ghosh. I wanted every bit of wisdom he could impart to me. All sons should write down every word of what their fathers have to say to them. I tried. Why did it take an illness for me to recognize the value of time with him? It seems we humans never learn. And so we relearn the lesson every generation and then want to write epistles. We proselytize to our friends and shake them by the shoulders and tell them, "Seize the day! What matters is THIS moment!" Most of us can't go back and make restitution. We can't do a thing about our should haves and our could haves. But a few lucky men like Ghosh never have such worries; there was no restitution he needed to make, no moment he failed to seize.
Now and then Ghosh would grin and wink at me across the room. He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live. — Abraham Verghese

I believe that life is a very individual path, and that we have to live it according to our own destiny and through our own eyes. Half the journey is groping around in the dark. Every lesson you learn, it's vital that you teach yourself as much as possible. Someone very wise once said that, in an ideal world, there would only be guides on the side, not sages on the stage. We would, in my opinion, need a time of not-knowing, a time of confusion that leads to wisdom, before we're really ready to be "retrieved". — Jennifer DeLucy

To submit is the great lesson. I too was once a dreamer: and in dreams there are lessons. But to submit, without dreaming any more, is the great lesson; to submit, without either understanding or repining, and without demanding of life too much of beauty or of holiness, and without shirking the fact that this universe is under no least bond ever to grant us, upon either side of the grave, our desires. To do that, my son, does not satisfy and probably will not ever satisfy a Puysange. But to do that is wisdom. — James Branch Cabell

The utility of adversity is to draw inspiration, wisdom and strength from it. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

This lesson is, I suppose, a major reason I wrote this book: because along the way I've picked up the wisdom that bad things happen, and yet the sun still comes up the next day, and it's up to you to carry on living your life and keeping your setbacks in perspective. You also have to understand that on some level, these horrible and sad things happen to everyone; the mark of a man is not just how he survives it all but also what wisdom he's gained from the experience. — Martin Short

The smartest fish are still in the sea. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The human spirit is courage incarnate, overcoming the impossible. — Angel M.B. Chadwick