Life Teaches Quotes

• I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

  Tom Bodett

  Life, Encouraging, Education

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  I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Leadership, Education

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

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• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.

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• The experiences of life teach truth.

  Harold Klemp

  Teach

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• The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

  Mortimer Adler

  Inspirational, Positive, Teaching

  "The Leisure Alternatives Catalog: Food for Mind & Body". Book by Joseph Allen, 1979.

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• You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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• You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself

  Oprah Winfrey

  Worthwhile, Accomplish, Ifs

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.120, Macmillan

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• Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Chance, Knows

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• Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

  John Dewey

  Life, Inspiring, Education

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• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "My Country", Volume 2, No. 3, published by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23, September 1968.

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

  Anatole France

  Education, Memories, Learning

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• Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

  John W. Gardner

  Education, Flower, Teaching

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• When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Depression

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.

  Jefferson Machamer

  Marriage, Wedding Anniversary, Thinking

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• How life teaches us, breaks us, rewards us, and tears us apart... how it lifts us up and brings us down... the wonder of life.

  Marwa

  Tears, Rewards, Wonder Of Life

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• Until we stop ourselves or, more often, have been stopped, we hope to put certain of life's events "behind us" and get on with our living. After we stop we see that certain of life's issues will be with us for as long as we live. We will pass through them again and again, each time with a new story, each time with a greater understanding, until they become indistinguishable from our blessings and our wisdom. It's the way life teaches us to live.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Wisdom, Blessing, Issues

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.23, Penguin

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• Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.

  Augustus William Hare

  Wise, Heart, Anchors

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• When we show people that something is possible that they didn't think was possible it does more than just change things. It changes the way people think about the possibility of things changing. It helps them see that life is not the same day-after day, unsurprising, unending drudgery that so much of life teaches them that it is. And that is a huge contribution to their humanity.

  Dan Pallotta

  Thinking, People, Humanity

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• Life teaches you the art of letting go in every event. When you have learnt to let go, you will be joyful and as you start being joyful, more will be given to you.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Letting Go, Art, Events

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• Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its inevitable difficulties. How will you know whether you are letting life teach you and nourish you? If your physical senses become more sensitive to the beauty you see, the words of love you hear, and the life you feel touching your body and soul, then you know you have discovered the great value of misfortune.

  Bernie Siegel

  Teacher, Love You, Soul

  Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.142, Random House

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• In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.

  Stephen Covey

  Important, Ends, Teach

  Stephen R. Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families”, p.116, St. Martin's Press

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• The past situation has just occurred and the future situation has not yet manifested itself so there is a gap between the two. This is basically the bardo (life between life) experience. [This is the place where your life is reviewed - where you get another chance to let life teach you and end the cycle of pain. -EM]

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Karma, Pain, Past

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• Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Hands, Logic, Teach

  Jeff Lindsay (2013). “Dexter's Final Cut: Dexter Morgan (7)”, p.22, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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