Quotes on Life Lesson

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.

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.