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• The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Pain, Suffering, Trying

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• Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of French, Latin, and English grammars to memory.

  John Muir

  Memories, Latin, English Grammar

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.29, The Mountaineers Books

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• The meaning and the purpose behind some events are unknowable. This is the ultimate test of our faith. We must trust that everyone in life is here to learn different lessons at different times, that good and bad experiences are only the perceptions of man. After all, some of your worst experiences have truly been your best. They've sculpted you, trained you, developed within you a sensitivity and set you in a direction that reaches out to impact your ultimate destiny.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Destiny, Men

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• Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. I spent a large part of my youth traveling the world as a hippie. And what money did I have then? None. I barely had enough to pay for my fare. But I still consider those to have been the best years of my youth. The great lessons I learned has been precisely those that my journeys had taught me.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Hippie, Journey

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• It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.

  Belva Plain

  Women, Plans, Unwise

  Belva Plain (2011). “Fortune's Hand”, p.159, Dell

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• One of the most fascinating lessons I've absorbed about life is that the struggle is good.

  Joe Rogan

  Struggle, Mma, Life Is

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.

  Adrian Desmond

  Real, Reading, Thinking

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• I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Hands, Wife

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.340, Grove Press

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• One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Teacher, Mma, Parent

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• One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Years, Mma, Progress

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• My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even more strong.

  Yukimi Nagano

  Strong, Trying, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Another observation, in a former letter of yours, has not escaped my remembrance – the three lessons which a minister has to learn: 1. Humility. 2. Humility. 3. Humility. How long are we learning the true nature of Christianity!

  Charles Simeon

  Humility, Long, Remembrance

  Charles Simeon (1848). “Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon, Late Senior Fellow of King's College and Minister of Trinity Church, Cambridge: With a Selection from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.60

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• Wrestlers need a lesson in submission, and I’m just the one to teach them.

  Frank Shamrock

  Needs, Submission, Wrestler

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• My first lessons lasted two weeks and it was Jingle Bells. It didn't make any sense at all. I wanted to know how to play like Hendrix.

  Joe

  Play, Two, Bells

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• Each delicately and fiercely imaged poem is a tribute to perseverence and survival and a lesson for us all.

  Walter Bargen

  Survival, Perseverence, Tribute

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• Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he had acute sensibility to the higher forces. Fire taught him secrets that no other animal could learn; running water probably taught him even more, especially in his first lessons of mechanics; the animals helped to educate him, trusting themselves into his hands merely for the sake of their food, and carrying his burdens or supplying his clothing; the grasses and grains were academies of study.

  Henry Adams

  Running, Men, Animal

  Henry Adams (2009). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.726, The Floating Press

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• It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Army, Needs, Moments

  "“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder". Book by Vladimir Lenin, Vol. 31, 1920.

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• So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.

  Paul Begala

  War, Fighting, Important

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• I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist.

  Donald Fagen

  Kids, Years, Play

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• Walking a dog is a lesson in the simplicities of happiness, but you need to throw sticks to get maximum benefit from the lesson.

  Steve Fowler

  Dog, Simplicity, Benefits

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• I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.

  William Kempe

  Heart, Done, I've Learned

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• Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life--keep moving.

  Mark Lawrence

  Life Lesson, Moving, World

  Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.159, Penguin

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• As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.

  Alberto Manguel

  Revenge, Lying, Heart

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• The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This grand epic will propel us forward in a spirit of expectant curiosity. We will place our trust not only in the Whole but also in our own species' capacity to serve as the vessel through which the evolutionary impulse is most active at this time.

  Michael Dowd

  Epic, Journey, Confusion

  Michael Dowd (2008). “Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World”, p.260, Penguin

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• Pain teaches lessons no scholar can.

  Kamahl

  Pain, Teach, Scholar

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