133 Life Lessons Quotes

Life is a journey filled with experiences, challenges, and opportunities for growth. As we navigate through its twists and turns, we often find solace and wisdom in the words of others who have walked similar paths. Whether seeking inspiration, motivation, or simply a new perspective, quotes about life lessons can provide valuable insights. In this blog post, we’ve curated a collection of the top 133 life lessons quotes. These concise nuggets of wisdom capture the essence of life's teachings, offering guidance and reflection to help you along your own journey. Explore these timeless quotes and let their lessons resonate with you, offering clarity and comfort as you continue to grow and evolve.

1. “During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.” - Howard Thurman

2. “1. Do what you say you're gonna do 2. Show up! 3. Give genuine praise whenever you can 4. Never say sorry when you don't mean it 5. Never use sarcasm in email (and use the corny ass emoticons)” - Matthew Lasar

3. “Not soon, as late as the approach of my ninetieth year, I felt a door opening in me and I entered the clarity of early morning. One after another my former lives were departing, like ships, together with their sorrow. And the countries, cities, gardens, the bays of seas assigned to my brush came closer, ready now to be described better than they were before.” - Czeslaw Milosz

4. “All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't grudge me the learning of a new lesson.” - Amy Carmichael

5. “Tendencies. Yougottendencies. Soevenifyoudideverythingoveragain, yourwholelife, yougottendenciestodojustwhatyoudid, alloveragain. -The Sheep Man.” - Haruki Murakami

6. “I made up my mind not to care so much about the destination, and simply enjoy the journey.” - David Archuleta

7. “Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.” - Aesop

8. “There is such dissociation between what the eyes see and what the mind envisions. The final thought is just a matter of interpretation, coloured by our experiences.” - Anirban Bose

9. “A child fish asks mother fish, 'Mother, why cannot we live on the Earth?' Mother fish replied, 'Dear… it is not the place for fish, it is the place for selfish” - Santosh Kalwar

10. “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.” - John Muir

11. “Under certain circumstances the fateful decisions in life, sometimes even in matters of life and death, are made with an almost indifferent ease. While the little things-for instance, the way people hang on to what is over-seem so important.” - Peter Hoeg (Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow)

12. “Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

13. “Join the mob or go for what you want. Give yourself plenty of quiet time alone in order to get in touch with who you are...Focus power of thought. Remind yourself that the world is yours for the asking. The non-risker does not grow, you just get older. When you have decided which ideas, beliefs, relationships, and situations no longer work for you, it is time to release them. Let go of negative thoughts - view them as a flight of birds crossing your path. See them fly into view and continue on their way.' - from Joan Root's diary” - Mark Seal

14. “The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a naked memory, an etched countenance, a whisper in the dark, a golden glow these and much more are the woven fabric of the time I have lived.” - Howard Thurman

15. “One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything.” - Beverly Donofrio

16. “I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.” - Michelle Moran

17. “There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.” - Maya Angelou

18. “O Lord, I am further away from me than from You!” - Sorin Cerin

19. “Once we are a creation, how much absurdity can there be in our heart without God the Creator.” - Sorin Cerin

20. “In your life, always be like a driver who runs the car not just a car.” - Santosh Kalwar

21. “Me propongo a describir, con precisión, hechos que finalmente han provocado mi forzosa estadía en este manicomio con el insólito consentimiento de mi amadísima familia, alumnos, colegas y amistades, habiendo sido recluido específicamente en el pabellón de los personajes famosos, dignidad esta que rechazo de plano.” - Eduardo Liendo

22. “If you see the dragon fly,best you drink the flagon dry.”—Zarost” - Greg Hamerton

23. “the scary part is that people don't realize how much they've changed .” - Simone Elkeles

24. “Words are like eggs dropped from great heights. You can't ever put the pieces back together after they hit home.” - Amaleka G. McCall

25. “Enjoy every bit of your life to the fullest. Your compromises and sacrifices will be rewarded.” - Santosh Kalwar

26. “فقد الحيرة يفقدنا المساواة والمساواة تفقدنا العدالة و غياب العدالة يؤدي الى السقوط الأخلاقي و تغليب القوة.” - عصام يوسف

27. “There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.” - Maya Angelou

28. “Miscommunication is endless.” - J.P. Rattie

29. “As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.” - Mel Brooks

30. “Get this in mind early: We never grow up.” - Richard Bach

31. “You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.” - Red Haircrow

32. “You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.” - Pittacus Lore

33. “Growing up means learning what life is. When you're little, you have a set of ideals, standards, criteria, plans, outlooks, and you think that you have to sit around and wait for them to happen to you and then life will work. But life isn't like that, for anybody; you can't fall in love with a standard, you have to fall in love with a person. You can't live in a criteria, you have to live your life. You can't wait for your plans to materialize, because they may never materialize the way you think they will. You can't wait to watch your ideals and standards walk up to you, because you can't know what's yours until you have it. I always say, always take the first chance in case you never get a second one, but growing up takes that even one step further, growing up means that you have to hold on to what you have, when you have it, because what you have- that's yours- and all the ideals and criteria you have set in your head, those aren't yours, because those haven't happened to you.” - C. JoyBell C.

34. “The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.” - C. JoyBell C.

35. “It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitable take their place; that every place has something good - and bad - to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.” - Nicholas Sparks

36. “Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.” - Steve Pavlina

37. “إن طلب العدل مرض,و لكنه المرض الوحيد الذى لا يصيب الحيوانات,كل ما فى الأمر أننا انا و أنت شفينا من هذا المرض فأصبحنا نرى أعراضه على الاّخرين.” - بهاء طاهر

38. “قد لا ينقذ من يطلب العدل العالم,و لكنه ينقذ نفسه.” - بهاء طاهر

39. “Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.” - Shannon Alder

40. “I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I sort of clung and did everything possible to keep someone around. I didn't have a hard talk with myself about who I was keeping around. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. I clung to people like human life preservers. I thought i'd die if someone left me. Its ironic because now I'm the one who's leaving.” - Deb Caletti

41. “Upon achieving a lifelong dream, I thought, this is the way to live your life -- in the moment, and to the fullest.” - Lorii Myers

42. “Depression exist without you knowing it, even denying it. It is not an illusion. You don't even know you're in it. It takes awhile before you realize it. If you deny it, it means your still in there or else you won't talk about your misery and the dramas in your life.” - Ann Marie Aguilar

43. “A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever done. But what's yours is yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it'll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won't have to put it back in the sky again.” - C. JoyBell C.

44. “You move forward. You face up to your challenges. You don't retreat. You're young, and sometimes you'll wish you could. But don't.” - Ellyn Bache

45. “After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.” - Criss Jami

46. “Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done.” - Derek Landy

47. “The planet is here for our delight, but it is also here for us to change, to make it the best it can be. It's not just about sleeping and fucking and getting the right dress. Let's HOPE not.” - Kelly Cutrone

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

49. “Even in the fiercest battles the Butterflies and Bee's still kiss the flowers.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

50. “Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.” - Brian Rathbone

51. “Quien planta un árbol tampoco sabe si acabará ahorcándose en él” - José Saramago

52. “karapatan kong madapa at bumangon sa buhay nang walang tatawa, magagalit, magtatanong, o magbibilang kung ilang beses na 'kong nagkamali at ilang ulit ako dapat bumawi” - Bob Ong

53. “Life is just mirrors and misunderstandings.” - Caedem Marquez

54. “The crack in your heart allows light in. ~ GOOD FORTUNE page 238” - Leslie Bratspis

55. “To be at peace with others you must be at peace with yourself.” - E'yen A. Gardner

56. “You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.” - Stephanie Perkins

57. “She didn’t need hope anymore because she knew the things you wanted weren’t necessarily the things that you needed. She knew that the things that were meant to be just happened. You couldn’t control them like she once thought.” - Holly Hood

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

59. “She understood that Simon was a disappointed man if he needed, at this age, to tell her he had pitied her for years.” - Elizabeth Strout

60. “Waiting around to be perfect never amounts to anything. Don't be a waiter or you'll be serving other people.” - Ian Desabrais

61. “If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.” - C.S. Lewis

62. “If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.” - Charles M. Schulz

63. “I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom” - General George S. Patton

64. “what happens when all you love, becomes all you hate?” - Alyxandra Harvey

65. “The mercy of forgiveness is brought from the strength to accept any situation given and faced. Spiritual independence and humbleness toward life makes life like a flowing river of release. What happens will happen anyways, and everybody can make mistakes. The important thing is to learn how to make a better future from the mistake.” - Hiroko Sakai

66. “Making bad decisions is a part of life. Blaming others for your bad decisions is immature.” - MI

67. “And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too —even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.” - Mitch Albom

68. “You always lose a lot of money chasing after women, but you will never lose a lot of women chasing after money” - Foster "Raul" Mkhabele

69. “Some People..If you could buy them for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth…You would never have to worry about money again.” - Tim Kirkland

70. “المترو رحلة إما أن تعيشها أو أن تعيشك” - ياسمين يوسف

71. “ففي البدء كانت الغاية، وفي المنتصف كانت الرحلة، وبين الغاية والرحلة تستطيع أن تدرك أن في أحيان عديدة.... تكون الرحلة هي في حد ذاتها الهدف!” - ياسمين يوسف

72. “She could remember a time when she thought things could be right with her and Jack. Now it seemed like that was such a long time ago. How could she have ever told herself things were going to be alright? She now knew with every once of her being that there was absolutely nothing left of the man she had once loved.” - K.A. Linde

73. “If only you could tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing.” - D.H. Lawrence

74. “It's risky most of the time, but its better to listen to your heart.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

75. “Mereka tak punya kemampuan menghapus cinta dan birahi. Mereka hanya bisa mencoba berdamai dengan perasaan itu dalam diri masing-masing” - Ayu Utami

76. “Yang dulu ada, sekarang tidak ada. Dan yang sekarang ada, kelak tidak ada. Yang sekarang belum ada, kelak akan ada.” - Budi Darma

77. “Surviving war is an excellent training process. If it weren't so brutal, I 'd recommend it as an excellent start-up course in life. I feel that over years of endurance, hard work and perseverance of determination and conviction, of claiming our rights to stay alive, to be free and to be ourselves, of fighting the biggest wars as much as the smaller ones, our will can indeed move mountains for us.” - Joumana Haddad

78. “I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.” - Anita Baker

79. “I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more.” - Dorothy Koomson

80. “At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no friends or toys, you toyed with dreams of murder, because that is a game to play alone.” - Jean-Paul Sartre

81. “I’m not mad. I already told you that. We all have mistakes in our past...and our future. It’s a fact of life.” - Shannon A Thompson

82. “Without this flock, I would be worthless. Without the people in this flock, I'd be empty. Without the people who started this flock, I'd be dead.” - Shannon A Thompson

83. “When you say you are HAPPY, it also means that you have experienced sadness.. Because you wont know, without sadness, what happiness is.......” - gayathri purushothaman

84. “There is no such thing as hopeless situation” - Vijay Dhameliya

85. “Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.” - D.B. Harrop

86. “There's no such thing as a sane woman.” - Andrew Sturm

87. “It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God.” - Hafiz

88. “Di tutte le cose sicure la più certa è il dubbio.” - Bertolt Brecht

89. “Once an opportunist like Mickey, who took the argument when she jumped on some devastated wretch's machine and jackpotted that it was the "cash-ino's money" she was winning, Moon returned after her six month break with the view that the separation had somehow sweetened the honeypot. The sad reality, she quickly learned, was that she was not irreplaceable; as such, the Casino felt no compunction to welcome her back with multi-jackpots. Instead, it took her money everyday and did not once give her a jackpot so that she could say, "Ah. They missed me." Instead, all she could keep saying was, "Verr-y bed. Verr-y bed. Suck-ah all my money!” - Hope Barrett

90. “Vedi Jim, tu sei una persona intelligente. Molto intelligente. Lo sei sempre stato ma purtroppo ti accontenti di essere solo una persona furba.” - Giorgio Faletti

91. “Las cosas fluyen hacia donde tiene que fluir y por más que te esfuerces e intentes hacerlos lo mejor posible, cuando llega el momento de herir a alguien lo hieres. La vida es así. Parece que está aleccionandote, pero ya es hora de que aprendas a vivir de este modo.” - Murakami, Haruki

92. “Whenever there is a break up, it's usually not the fault of just one party. Both are usually at fault” - Louis N. Jones

93. “لا أعرف كيف سيكون رد فعلك على هذه التفاصيل، ومن المؤكد أنك لا تفكر فى أبيك فى مواقف كهذه.ولست متأكدا مما إذا كانت طريقتى هى الأفضل، لكن هذا هو اجتهادى. لا أريدك أن تكبر وأنت تظنّ أنىرجل كامل، لا أخطئ ولا يأتينى الباطل ولا أجاهد مثل الكل نزعاتى وغضبى وغرائزى. أريدك أن تنسىهذه الدعاية الزائفة التى تروجها كتب الأطفال، وأنت ترانى كما أنا، رجلا من لحم ودم، بأخطاء أحاولتجنُّبها وغرائز أحاول ترويضها وخير أصبو إليه فأصيبه حينا وأخطئه أحيانا. لماذا؟ لا لأنى مهتمّ بشرحصورتى بقدر ما أنى لا أريدك أن تحاسب نفسك أنت بمقاييس غير واقعية. لا أريدك أن تقيس سلوكك على ماتظن أنه كمال بشرى ممكن، أبوك، فتظل طوال عمرك تشعر بالقصور وبأنك لا يمكنك أن تبلغ ما بلغه أبوك.لا أنا كامل ولا عظيم بأكثر مما يمكنك أنت، بأخطائك وترددك وشكوكك وضعفك أن تكون. كلنا هكذا، وتَذكَّرهذا وإن نسيت كل شىء آخررواية بابا الخروج” - عز الدين شكرى فشير

94. “The most important thing I learned is that to be truly happy, you've got to pay attention to that stupid inner voice we all have. It knows what you need and will drive you shit crazy until you listen to it.” - Dorothea Benton Frank

95. “Se non hai paura di una cosa, allora quella cosa impara a stare lontana da te, perché capisce che più di tanto non riesce a danneggiarti, e con tutta la gente danneggiabile che c'è in giro non è che si mette a perdere tempo con uno che non l'apprezza.” - Diego De Silva

96. “He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.” - Stephen King

97. “To call you my critic is to call you my friend.” - Karen E. Quinones Miller

98. “When you are at the top then is only one way to go and thats "Down” - Irshad Kaukab

99. “Sometimes the smartest thing to do is to feign ignorance.” - Zack W. Van

100. “Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are” - Iain S. Thomas

101. “You see, that hunger inside us, that ambition, or whatever you may choose to call it, is a compass really, a compass of true desire. And if you will be happy, you must follow that desire, no matter which way the needle points.” - Kathe Koja

102. “Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.” - The Buddha

103. “I didn’t even try it but the feeling that I got from being slightly high was so nice, I was so relaxed and happy and horny. Tomorrow Claude will be coming to my house, we will bake weed brownies on mugs, order pizza and have sex all the afternoon.” - Mariana Calderón de la Barca

104. “Que la vida es inmortal mientras se vive, mientras se está con vida. Que la inmortalidad no es una cuestión de más o menos tiempo, que no es una cuestión de inmortalidad, que es una cuestión de otra cosa que permanece ignorada. Que es tan falso decir que carece de principio y de fin como decir que empieza y termina en la vida del alma desde el momento en que participa del alma y de la prosecución del viento. Mirad las arenas muertas del desierto, el cuerpo muerto de los niños: la inmortalidad no pasa por ahí, se detiene y los esquiva.” - Marguerite Duras

105. “What's the rush? Recognise that with the time at our disposal, there is only a limited number of good books you can read, a few really good movies worth seeing, and a finite number of hours, days, years to enjoy them!” - Ken Puddicombe

106. “When life gives you lemons, you don't make lemonade. You use the seeds to plant a whole orchard - an entire franchise! Or you could just stay on the Destiny Bus and drink lemonade someone else has made, from a can.” - Anthon St. Maarten

107. “When you try to cast doubt on the relationship of two true lovers.You'll find a bond that you'll never discover” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

108. “A million dollars sounds like a lot, I know. Especially when you're young. But you can't let money erode your principles or you'll wind up with nothing.” - Wendelin Van Draanen

109. “No one ever said your life would be easy. The nature of being human makes life for all of us a challenge. The most important thing to consider here is this. Your life is only as challenging as you think it is. Think of challenge as a teacher and yourself the student. It's up to you to figure out what the lesson is to be learned. To learn that lesson and build the strength and courage to face other challenges….” - James A. Murphy

110. “What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.” - Mark Twain

111. “I had to wonder what sadistic pleasure and entertainment human suffering must provide to the divine game players who decided the fate of their pawns in a board game they made of life.” - Clyde Dsouza

112. “Life takes constant adjustment and growth. Don't get settled in or it will surprise you and not in a good way.” - Jean Williams

113. “It takes tremendous effort to rise but it takes less effort to fall” - Kedron Omosigho

114. “It is a terrible moment when you realise you’ll never do all the best things this world can offer; that you’ll never have a superlative experience. You’ll go to a Gala Bingo rather than Vegas; get your own office, but not be a CEO; and get a gravestone, but not in Poet’s Corner. You’ll never sleep with the girls on the TV. And all of this mediocrity was made worse by the fact of its inescapable prevalence.” - Django Wylie

115. “It occurred to the man that the biggest problem with this staid world was the overwhelming demand for conformity. Everything was so eerily definitive: assent to the mandates of society would see you on the rise, but dissent was a steady downward path.” - Django Wylie

116. “We learned about life from the books they told us not to read.” - Antoinette Ingoldsby

117. “Repeat the good. And the bad. Do it all...and pile on the years.” - Natsuki Takaya

118. “Don't ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.” - Lavinia Spalding

119. “Among all the wisdom and facts I learned from Giannon, I also learned the loneliness of incarnation, in which there is inevitably a separation of souls because of the uniqueness of our faces and our experiences. And I learned also the moments when the current of my life joins the current of another life, and I can glimpse for a moment the one flowing body of water we all compose.” - Kate Horsley

120. “Une lutte qui semble perdue, est la plus excitante.” - Jacques Tardi

121. “Why do we struggle so much? Why do we demand so much of life, when the happiest moments are when nothing is happening at all?” - Chris Beckett

122. “Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.” - Athol Fugard

123. “Yes! That's what all our talk about a decent world has been... just so much bullshit.""We did say it was still only a dream.""And a bloody useless one at that. Life's a fuck-up and it's never going to change.” - Athol Fugard

124. “Have a GOAL to keep the following 5-‘H’ OUT of your lifeH – HarassH – HamperH – HurtH – HarmH – HinderTo Ensure H=Happiness Prevails forever!” - Sujit Lalwani

125. “All have dreams, live for them, They add meaning to LIFE.The only thing that differentiates us from other beings is the fact that us can DREAM!!!” - Sujit Lalwani

126. “The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story” - Jodi Picoult

127. “I have always had people to propound how essential it is to dream,but never do they tell what you should do when these dreams, outof the blue, flux into reality. One thing is pretty clear to me now andI’ll say this -- put forethought into what you wish for. What if it isreally granted?” - Mansi Soni

128. “Things will happen that you can’t prevent, things will fall apart that you can’t hold together, but ultimately you’re shaping yourself and that final product speaks volumes about who you really are, not what people see you as or what you want to be.” - Erik Tomblin

129. “Striving to live the ordinary life in a non-ordinary way.” - Book of Runes

130. “Don't do the things just for the sake of it. Do something extra. It makes ordinary things, extraordinary.” - Chandan Sharma

131. “One of our greatest challenges is to handle Winning without arrogance, being educated without being condescending and having compassion without developing indifference” - Kalon Jackson

132. “Just chill with life.” - The Wombat

133. “Amigos son los que en la prosperidad acuden al ser llamados y en las adversidades sin serlo.” - Demetrio I. Rey de Macedonia.