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• He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Life Lesson, Learning

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• Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

  Jessica Lange

  Life Lesson, Acceptance, Tolerance

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• If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding... and snatch an opportunity to shape character.

  Jane Clayson Johnson

  Children, Character, Parenting

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• All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready.

  Paulo Coelho

  Attention, Pay, Ready

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 26, 2016

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• other people maay be there to help us, teach us, guide us aolng our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours

  Melody Beattie

  Learning, Lessons To Be Learned, People

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• You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

  Douglas Coupland

  Rainy Day, Weather, Mad

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• I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.

  Laurent Fabius

  Government, Europe, Draws

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• When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.

  Will Rogers

  Giving, Surprise, Critters

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• There are no mistakes, only lessons.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Mistake

  Cherie Carter-Scott (2002). “The Gift of Motherhood: 10 Truths for Every Mother”, p.163, Harmony

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• Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.

  Brian Tracy

  Achievement, Difficulty, Great Achievement

  Twitter post from Mar 23, 2014

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• The most valuable lessons in life cannot be taught, they must be experienced.

  Liam Payne

  Inspirational, Life, Experience

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• Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.8, Basic Books

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• Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.

  Marg Helgenberger

  Sports, Life Lesson, Disability

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• When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.

  Johnny Mathis

  Life Lesson, Voice, Singing

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• The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years.
  I'd say it's the life experience combined with the
  lessons that enabled me to go much further.

  Kip Winger

  Life Lesson, Years, Experience

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• When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

  Mark Twain

  Respect, Life Changing, Life Lesson

  1897 Following the Equator, ch.29.

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• The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

  William Godwin

  Years, Youth, Genocide

  William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.206

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• My new one (tattoo) says 'Never a failure, always a lesson' and is kind of my mantra to life, just a reminder. My life is just a crazy rollercoaster every day and whenever I read that it just reassures me.

  Rihanna

  Tattoo, Crazy, Kind

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• Gardening can be a compelling cooperative activity. Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with family and friends. There's never a shortage of things to do, no limit to the lessons that can be learned, especially for children, and there's always plenty of credit to go around, even for the mistakes.

  Steven Wilson

  Friendship, Children, Mistake

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• If the river has a soul, it's a peaceful one. If it has a lesson to impart, that lesson is patience. There will be drought, it says; there will be floods; the ice will form, the ice will melt; the water will flow and blend into the river's brackish mouth, then join the ocean between Lewes and Cape May, endlessly, forever, amen.

  Therese Anne Fowler

  Ocean, Ice, Rivers

  Therese Anne Fowler (2013). “Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.274, Macmillan

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• That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

  Aldous Huxley

  Learning, Health, Men

  Collected Essays (1959) "Case of Voluntary Ignorance"

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• Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Proud, Genocide

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• I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!

  Charles Dickens

  Philosophical, Heart, Past

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.91

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• I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.

  David Ginola

  Acting, France, South

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• I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Sports, Thinking, Found

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