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

“All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.”

“My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others.”

“If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!”

“Let us learn from the lips of death the lessons of life. Let us live truly while we live, live for what is true and good and lasting. And let the memory of our dead help us to do this. For they are not wholly separated from us, if we remain loyal to them. In spirit they are with us. And we may think of them as silent, invisible, but real presences in our households.”

“He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely…”

“Being happy sometimes requires us to take a steep path. An unpleasant and even unpopular path. Our rejection and disregard for other people's opinions is sometimes necessary to make ourselves happier. We can't always be the ego graters of others.”

“It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.”

“Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.”

“They are here among us. Let us be wise enough to learn from those who can teach us much — who will be our friends if we will but let them!”