1,028 Quotes About Lessons

Life was fragile and love was, too. At any moment, even our happiest ones, our world could shatter and we wouldn’t see it coming. There was only more loss ahead, showing its ugly face when we least expected it.

A fact was the hard outer cover of meaning, and meaning was the soft living stuff inside a fact. Fact and meaning were the driving cogs of living. If the gear of fact drove the gear of meaning, then they revolved in opposite directions, but put the gear of fantasy between the two and they both revolved in the same direction. Fantasy was and is important; it leads to heaven knows where, but follow it and see. Sometimes it pays off.

Ignore your pain at your peril. Your most potent lessons are often wrapped within its uncomfortable embrace...

If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd feel a horrible emptiness inside. The only thing that could rouse him from his paralysis would be to gamble with his own face and the face of others. The person capable of that would be permitted anything.

One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.

Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.

Pay no attention to haters,attention is what they crave.

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

Yesterday's faults become today's lessons. Today's dreams become tomorrow's reality.