Wednesday, 25 March 2020

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 the answers to your questions.

The key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success. - Diego Val

A slander is like a hornet; if you can’t kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it. - Josh Billings

When the river is deepest, it makes least noise. - Unknown

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. - Minna Antrim

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. - Logan Smith

There are tones of voice that mean more than words. - Robert Frost

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. However to be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. - Unknown

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. - Albert Von Szent-Gyorgyi

You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing? - Kahlil Gibran

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. - Robert Benchley

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can’t see it until after we have tripped over it. - Cullen Hightower

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