All Quotes By Tag: Life-lessons

“I didn’t know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.”

“love everyone,trust a few and rely on nobody”

“I told her running away from your problems doesn’t solve anything. Really it just hurts the people who count on you.”

“To be at peace with others you must be at peace with yourself.”

“Cómo está Marta, preguntará él, Cansada, pero bien, responderé yo, y estas palabras también las andamos diciendo constantemente, no me extrañaría nada que cuando transitemos de este mundo hacia el otro todavía consigamos encontrar fuerzas para responder a alguien que se le ocurra la imbécil idea de preguntarnos cómo nos sentimos, Muriendo, pero bien, es lo que diremos.”

“You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.”

“Maybe if I’d agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I’d always tell her, why can’t I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn’t be about the either/or. We’re capable of more than that, you know?”

“If I had a choice, I wouldn’t be here… I wouldn’t be anywhere.”

“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.”

“أتعرف سبب رفضي لارتكاب هذه الفعلة الدنيئة؟ لأني لا أزال راغباً في سماع صوت الموسيقى في خرير الماء، وأن أطرب لغناء الطير وحفيف أوراق الشجر”

“It’s a hard life if you don’t weaken.”

“A rose is not its thorns, a peach is not its fuzz and a human being is not his or her crankiness.”

“Just the sight of one another, just the sight of our smiles was enough to fill our hearts with the joy of seeing each other again.”

“People have been on earth in our present form for only about 100,000 years, and in so many ways we’re still ironing out our kinks. These turtles we’ve been traveling with, they outrank us in longevity, having earned three more zeros than we. They’ve got one hundred million years of success on their resume, and they’ve learned something about how to survive in the world. And this, I think, is part of it: they have settled upon peaceful career paths, with a stable rhythm. If humans could survive another one hundred million years, I expect we would no longer find ourselves riding bulls. It’s not so much that I think animals have rights; it’s more that I believe humans have hearts and minds- though I’ve yet to see consistent, convincing proof of either. Turtles may seem to lack sense, but they don’t do senseless things. They’re not terribly energetic, yet they do not waste energy… turtles cannot consider what might happen yet nothing turtles do threatens anyone’s future. Turtles don’t think about the next generation, but they risk and provide all they can to ensure that there will be one. Meanwhile, we profess to love our own offspring above all else, yet above all else it is they from whom we daily steal. We cannot learn to be more like turtles, but from turtles we could learn to be more human. That is the wisdom carried within one hundred million years of survival. What turtles could learn from us, I can’t quite imagine.”

“Remember:there are no mistakes only lessons love yourselftrust your choises and everything is POSSIBLE”