It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.
Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it and start again. Don't be afraid that you are wasting supplies. Every failure teaches something, if only what not to do.
Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers who has so singularly favored the American people in every national trial and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps
Sports also teaches you that it's about the team, and the better your teammates are, the better they make you.
That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language.
But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.
If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.
Americans are interested because they are open-minded. They have an education system that teaches them to find out for themselves why things are the way they are. Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.
Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that.
What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.
Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.
This religion teaches that 6,000 years ago God made the first man out of dust - not even mud - and the first woman out of a bone; that God cursed the whole human race because a snake made the woman eat an apple; that God had a son by another man's wife, and that he had this son murdered in order to keep himself from sending all the human race to hell.
God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas.
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.
Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.