Thursday, 14 May 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 learn 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.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one. - William Penn

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver

An amiable man is one who listens with a smile to what he already knows, told by a person who does not. - Unknown

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. - Orison Swett Marden

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. - Samuel Johnson

And all who told it added something new; and all who heard it made enlargements too. - Alexander Pope

The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour. - Vincent T. Lombardi

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. - William Shakespeare

The reason why worry kills more people than hard work is that more people worry than work. - Robert Frost

There is no good or bad, there are only circumstances. - Honore de Balzac

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. - Anatole France

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