Quotes about Lessons

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.

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.

Convictions are lessons learned from experiences we'd never want to go through again, but wouldn't trade for anything in the world.

The story being told in Star Wars is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again.

God constantly uses the lives of Bible characters to teach us, to encourage us, to warn us.

Everything that happens to me is designed to better prepare me for serving others, everything!

Whitefolks said he was a witch doctor, but they said that so they wouldn't have to say he was smart. A hunter's hunter that's what he was. Smart as they come. Taught me two lessons I lived by all my life. One was the secret of kindness from white people —they had to pity a thing before they could like it. The other--- oh well, I forgot it." Joe Trace

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!