Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same.
In a certain sense, these were lessons I learned by playing with Indian musicians. The rhythmic forms that they use are very complex, and very challenging. In order to play in fifteen, or eleven, or seven or even five, you have to have mastered that time in order to be able to be free with the music.
We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free. ' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget.
The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.
The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
When a beautiful road ends, remember how it was to live it over again! When a hard road ends, remember how it was to get a lesson for the future!
Pain teaches lessons no scholar can.
It's been a hard lesson for me , but contrary quite frankly to what is a common practice in politics, I can tell from my own experience, it is better to stay away from personalities.
All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready.
I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [. . . ] Instead he kissed me.
Never a failure,always a lesson.
Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what’s important in life.
The person who is hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons.
Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them. . . they may be forced to die by them.
What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?
One of the biggest lessons I learned from nearly dying of cancer is the importance of loving myself unconditionally. In fact, learning to love and accept myself unconditionally is what healed me and brought me back from the brink of death.
If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
I never know what the next lesson is going to be, because we're not supposed to know -- we're supposed to trust ourselves to discover it.
That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.