Life's Little Lessons

Life lessons are learned through experiences, and mistakes. Some of the mistakes are costly and/or painful, and took us a lot of time to recover from them, while some lessons took a long time to learn. Unfortunately, time is something we do not have plenty of. We do not have enough time to learn all the Life’s lessons by ourselves.

However, we may be able to get a head's start in life, if we from the experiences and mistakes of others, and by paying attention to the words of wisdom, and advices of the wise people before us, – the sages, the philosophers, the gurus... – and also those who are still with us who have been through the hardships in life.

These are valuable Life lessons not learned in school. Armed with these lessons, we will be able to avoid the potholes of life. We will have an idea of what to expect of Life, and how to live our lives. There will be times when you find that these are exactly the advise you are seeking, or they are the answers to your questions.

Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile with someone then coming back alone, that is more difficult. - Unknown

When you wish to instruct, be brief. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Before you try to convince anyone else be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject. - John H. Patterson

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. - Friedrich Nietzsche

When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like. - Joseph Addison

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. - Albert Einstein

We seldom think of what we have, but always think of what we miss. - Unknown

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a smaller man. - Mencius

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. - Henri Bergson

We visit others as a matter of social obligation. How long has it been since we have visited with ourselves? - Morris Adler

A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. - Lord Jeffrey