Some life lessons

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When you’re lucky enough to find help putting together a satisfying and productive life, as I was, you come away with a few lessons. I’d like to share them with you, if I can, though I’m still learning and growing and nowhere near ready to stop. 

Just because you’re poor doesn’t mean you have to be poor in spirit. 

Just because you’ve lost faith doesn’t mean you can’t learn to.

Just because you’re hurt doesn’t mean you won’t heal. 

Just because you fell back a few steps doesn’t mean your next step can’t move you forward again. 

Just because it’s very dark doesn’t mean there is no light ahead. 

And just because you’ve been let down and disappointed doesn’t mean you won’t find love. The kind of love that is safe, enduring and powerful.

~ Robyn Carr 

The next lesson

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You will never be told when the next bit of education is coming or where it's coming from or who the teacher will be. That information will only reveal itself after the fact. All that you can do is leave a little room there for the next lesson to come through. Someone will be carrying it. You just leave the door open a crack.

~ Tom Petty

The next lesson

Credit: Debra Oliver 

You will never be told when the next bit of education is coming or where it's coming from or who the teacher will be. That information will only reveal itself after the fact. All that you can do is leave a little room there for the next lesson to come through. Someone will be carrying it. You just leave the door open a crack.

~ Tom Petty

A valuable lesson

Illustration of 'The Emperor's New Clothes' by Vilhelm Pedersen (1820 - 1859) from the English Wikipedia

The lesson I learned has been valuable to me thus far: The Emperor knows he is naked. But if you point out the fact that his wealth and power are not sufficient to clothe him, then you implicate every fool in the crowd.

~ Rebekah Joy Anast 

A valuable lesson

Illustration of 'The Emperor's New Clothes' by Vilhelm Pedersen (1820 - 1859) from the English Wikipedia

The lesson I learned has been valuable to me thus far: The Emperor knows he is naked. But if you point out the fact that his wealth and power are not sufficient to clothe him, then you implicate every fool in the crowd.

~ Rebekah Joy Anast 

Quote on what she learned

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It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on. She had also learned that every time she tried to make someone aware of something in her life, the situation just got worse. Consequently it was up to her to solve her problems by herself, using whatever methods she deemed necessary.

~ Stieg Larsson

Quote on what she learned

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It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on. She had also learned that every time she tried to make someone aware of something in her life, the situation just got worse. Consequently it was up to her to solve her problems by herself, using whatever methods she deemed necessary.

~ Stieg Larsson

Quote on crying over spilt milk

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...if by 'milk' it is meant all or any earthly good whatever, it is the 'spilt milk' that we should lament. There is no reason to cry for the milk that has not been wasted, the good that is not lost. So let us cry for the spilt milk, by all means, if by doing so we learn how to avoid spilling any more. Let us cry for the spilt milk, and remember how, and where, and why, we spilt it. Much wisdom is learnt through tears, but none by forgetting our lessons.

~ María Amparo Ruiz de Burton

Quote on crying over spilt milk

Source: EcoBlog.co.za

...if by 'milk' it is meant all or any earthly good whatever, it is the 'spilt milk' that we should lament. There is no reason to cry for the milk that has not been wasted, the good that is not lost. So let us cry for the spilt milk, by all means, if by doing so we learn how to avoid spilling any more. Let us cry for the spilt milk, and remember how, and where, and why, we spilt it. Much wisdom is learnt through tears, but none by forgetting our lessons.

~ María Amparo Ruiz de Burton

Quote on frustration

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In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life of one man was insufficient for even the smallest part of the wonders that lay within. It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do so properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn.

~Iain Pears

Quote on frustration

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In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life of one man was insufficient for even the smallest part of the wonders that lay within. It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do so properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn.

~Iain Pears