I Have Learned Quotes - Page 23

• I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

  "The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health". "The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health", Vol. LXXXV, p. 170, September, 1887.

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• If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.

  Aga Khan IV

  Powerful, Generosity, Progress

  Aga Khan IV's address to the Tutzing Evangelical Academy Upon Receiving the "Tolerance" Award in Tutzing, Germany, May 20, 2006.

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• I have learned more and more to enjoy my body when I have a few extra pounds on, just being more voluptuous.

  Fergie

  Beauty, Women, Focus

  "It's a Fergie World". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. March 31, 2008.

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• I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live.

  David Levithan

  Lonely, Past, Views

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.10, Egmont UK

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• I have lived large parts of my life in wonderful circumstances that I utterly failed to appreciate. Reasons to be happy were everywhere, but somehow I didn't connect with them. It was as though I was eating but couldn't taste the food. Finally, I've learned to celebrate the good while it's happening. I feel gratitude and praise today for what are sometimes such simple pleasures. I have learned that happiness is not determined by circumstances. Happiness is not what happens when everything goes the way you think it should go; happiness is what happens when you decide to be happy.

  Marianne Williamson

  Happiness, Gratitude, Simple

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• If I have learned anything in long years of introspection, it is that life requires a price if you want to be as fully alive as you can be. You need courage to pursue the truth of your life and yourself.

  Eda LeShan

  Years, Long, Needs

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• Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Real, Emotional, Fake

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.14, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can’t please everyone, so don’t try.

  Chris Colfer

  Journey, Trying, Lessons

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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.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Thinking, Lessons

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "Job Market Strong as Graduates Enter Real World" by Lindsay Hamilton, abcnews.go.com. May 12, 2007.

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• I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Challenges, Succeed, Spite

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Jul 29, 2011

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• All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Book, Philosophical, Knows

  "Nausea". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938.

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• I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

  Alice Walker

  Love, Heart, Happy Valentines Day

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.65, New Press, The

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• I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Friendship, Family

  Walt Whitman, “I Sing The Body Electric”

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• In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.

  Tiger Woods

  Spiritual, Balance, Needs

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• I have been inspired by Martin Luther King and how he inspired a movement. I have learned that a cause must be organic; if it is to have an impact it must belong to those who join the movement and not those who lead it.

  Simon Sinek

  Kings, Impact, Causes

  "When A Movement Moves" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2010.

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• For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Humanity, Environmental

  'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey' (1798) l. 88

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• I have learned to delegate.

  Gwen Stefani

  Delegates

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• The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Trust, Life Lesson, Men

  Henry L. Stimson (2016). “On Active Services In Peace And War”, p.416, Read Books Ltd

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• One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Reality, Long

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.404, Princeton University Press

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• What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.

  Henry Miller

  Sex, Together, World

  Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Capricorn”, Grove/Atlantic

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• I know, now, without a doubt that the true source of happiness, self-worth, and authentic beauty doesn't come from the outside. Women are constantly being persuaded to want something unachievable, to look younger or thinner and above all to fit in because being different is too painful and embarassing. I have accepted myself in a world that does not accept me, because I have learned [ . . . ] that our hearts matter most... It's a beautiful heart, not a perfect body, that leads to a beautiful life.

  Stephanie Nielson

  Beautiful, Heart, Self Worth

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• I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

  Richard Adams

  Thinking, Suffering, Rabbits

  Richard Adams (2009). “Watership Down: A Novel”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

  Mike DeWine

  Journey, Years, Decision

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