Quotes Tagged "life-lessons"

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?” Aunty Ifeka said. “Your life belongs to you and you alone.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble

Always be fearless. Walk like lion, talk like pigeons, live like elephants and love like an infant child.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.

Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.

Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing.

That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

Give out what you most want to come back.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.

Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.

Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.