“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”

“He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.”

“Life and those who rear us teach lessons that break us. How we reassemble the broken pieces defines what we become.”

“Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?”

“The universe… doesn't owe us anything but an education, and it gives us lessons every day.”

“An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown”

“No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.”

“Some of the greatest lessons you learn in life are the ones communicated without a single word spoken.”

“other people maay be there to help us, teach us, guide us aolng our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours”

“If history is to teach us anything, it must teach us that there is a continuity which binds together the present and the past, the East and the West. And no branch of history teaches that lesson more powerfully than the history of language and the history of religion.”