A relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents. We stay with a relationship until a lesson is learned, or we simply learn it another way.
I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.
We either get success or lessons. If we learn our lessons successfully, we get both.
When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
When we're doing our lessons, the teacher doesn't say, 'Ready, set, work,' They say, 'Ready, set, play,' and I always took that word seriously.
My father taught me a good lesson: Don't get to low when things go wrong. And don't get too high when things are good.
When I have a low budget I always try to make it a lesson in economy.
There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.
I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions. . . we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.
I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.
I've learned the lesson that when you're in the middle of something that seems overwhelming, or you're in a bad situation and it seems like it's the end of the world or whatever, then you learn that it's not.
Lesson no. 17: Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love.
Our bad memories and our bad experiences are what make us who we are and what make us grow and allow us to learn, if we choose to see the lessons in those experiences.
Study your lessons, don't settle for less.
Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles.
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.
I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.
though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.
The person who is hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons.
Keep believing in yourself, and don't ever give up, even if people tell you otherwise. Just believe in yourself and take every action you need to get there, whether it's taking more lessons or a fun, cool job in New York or LA and stepping out of the box. Be a little bit risky, but still confident.