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.

A person does not have to be behind bars to be a prisoner. People can be prisoners or ‘slaves’ of their own concepts and ideas. - Unknown

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body, but knowledge acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. - Aristotle

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. - An Wang

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go. - Jeannette Rankin

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been. - Sophocles

A person hears only what he understands. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried. - Unknown

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the other. - Joseph Addison

Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention. - Rachael Naomi Remen

We need not all agree, but if we disagree, let us not be disagreeable in our disagreements. - Martin R. DeHaan

It takes a lot of thought and effort and downright determination to be agreeable. - Unknown

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. - Aldous Huxley