Quotes for All
I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don’t romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you’re suffering a lot, especially in the Bob Marley sense, suffering becomes a kind of university out of which you’ll learn some hard lessons. Fred D’Aguiar
Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that’s a hard lesson of reality. Donna Tartt
Motherhood is a choice you make every day, to put someone else’s happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you’re not sure what the right thing is… and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong. Donna Ball
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. David James
I’ve been given a gift [musical talent] – don’t misuse it. I spent a lot of time just wasting that talent, not treasuring it, not valuing it, not respecting it, just taking it for granted. That was a hard lesson to learn. It doesn’t come for free. Don’t do that. Treasure it, respect it, treat … Read more
So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way … Read more
I didn’t mean I’d seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn’t. I just meant I’d seen some things I’d as soon not of. I know it. There’s hard lessons in this world. What’s the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it’s just that when things are gone they’re gone. They aint comin back. Yessir. … Read more
The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better. Charlie Munger
To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it – this is a hard lesson. Bruce Catton
…if God teaches us victory in Christ Jesus day by day, we live in the constant awareness of His greatness and His sufficiency. Hard lessons are often long-lasting lessons. Never forget that God is far more interested in our getting to know the Deliverer than simply being delivered. Beth Moore