Quotes about Lessons

Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.

I kept thinking that. I don't know why it is I can't seem to learn that a woman'll do anything.

We may be through with our past, but the past isn't through with us.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

In terms of my own life and the mistakes I made and the struggles I had, I'm grateful for them. It taught me more than success and opportunity ever did.

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Now, Audrey, to me secret: while I have days that I struggle, some pretty terrible days, it mean that I also have stunning days. I weigh them both on the same side of the scale, lesson you taught. Life is short. Life is fragile. I shall grasp it with both hands and hang on, trying always to find the joy.

Stories teach us to not give up hope because there are times in our own journey when we mustn't give up hope. They teach endurance because in our lives we are meant to endure. They carry messages that are older than the words themselves, messages that reach beyond the page.

Our trials, our troubles, our demons, our angels—we reenact them because these stories explain our lives. Literature's lessons repeat because they echo from deeper places.