Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
After you've work hard to get what you want, take the time to enjoy it.
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.
Every life lesson is on that baseball field.
There are also flat periods in life which may well be the periods during which-before new lessons come- the past lessons of life are allowed to seep, quietly and deeply, into the marrow of the soul. These outwardly flat periods, when enduring well may not seem very purposeful,, are probably the times when needed attitudinal alignments are quietly occurring.
I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.
Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it.
Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.
It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
When there's a piano to be moved, don't reach for the stool.
I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak.
'You all righ'?' he said gruffly. 'Yeah,' said Harry. 'No, yeh're not,' said Hagrid. 'Of course yeh're not. But yeh will be. '
Why is balance important? From a life lesson standpoint, it's about learning to enjoy yourself without getting the ego involved.
One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.
When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.