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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

For me, most comedy scripts fail in the mechanical playing-out of the setup. They'll pay lip service to a moral lesson or a psychological progression.

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.

From the cradle to the grave is a school, so if what we call problems are lessons, we see life differently.

For our past can be a prison we are locked in permanently, or it can be the key to our freedom if we glean the lessons from it and deal with it directly.

From the time I was three and a half... as soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given dance lessons.

From where you sit, it may seem that certain people should know better. People are who they are and do what they do whether or not you like it or agree with them. We each have different lessons to learn. We each take a different path to our lessons.

For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions.

Government should take management lesson from private sector.

Guilt is the teacher, love is the lesson.

Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.

Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.

Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.

Happy will be those who take a lesson and warning from the mistakes and misfortunes of others and seek, nevertheless, to adopt the good they offer. Wisdom, wherever he finds it, it's a believer's goal, because he is more worthy of it than anyone else.

Having someone to share not only the joy of life, but the pain of life... that's been sort of the biggest lesson of marriage. I can never get angry or upset with my partner because they're just a part of me.

God loves me enough to let me go through all the lessons I came here to learn, even the ones that hurt the most. His presence doesn't deny me. It's always there to help me see and understand what I came to this planet to learn.

Heart lesson #4: the unrequited heart. You can't make anyone love you back.

Healthcare is yet to be transformed by technology.

He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!

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

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Here's the first major lesson: Writing is not an activity. It's not something you sit down at the keyboard, and just start doing. That's called 'typing.' Typing is an activity ... Writing is a process. And if you start thinking of it as a process, life gets so much easier.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is mine." [...] He believes in you.

He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson

Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop.

He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

History's one great lesson is that reactionaries are losers.

History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease.

How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!

How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?

How many times have I been in my therapist's office, saying, "I think I'm smarter than this! I've been down this road! I've learned this lesson!" And she's like, "Yeah, and you're learning it a little bit deeper.

I am always impressed by the fact that even the tiniest amount of being listened to, the barest suggestion of the possibility of kind treatment, can bring such an immediate rush of emotion. I think this is because we are almost never really listened to. In my work as a psychologist, I am reminded every day of how infrequently we are heard, any of us, or our actions even marginally understood. And one of the ironies of my "listening profession" is its lesson that, in many ways, each of us ultimately remains a mystery to everyone else.

Humans were made to work in sweet to earn a living. Those that try to get rich or live at the expense of others all get divine retribution somewhere along the line. That's the lesson. unfortunately we forget the lessons quickly and then we have to learn them all over again.

I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.

I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.

I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

I certainly don't want to have too many pre-conceived notions before I show up because then you might be cutting yourself off from the real lessons of what is going on.

I can't play any horns. Every time I tried to take saxophone lessons as a kid ... I can't whistle. I don't know if that has anything to do with.

I believe a large part of humanity will draw appropriate lessons from what is the wave of the future in the 21st century.