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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?

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.

Healthcare is yet to be transformed by technology.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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's one great lesson is that reactionaries are losers.

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.

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

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?

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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 definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.

I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.

I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.

I do believe that there is a greater being that has brought me this far through life. Something or someone is on my side teaching me valuable lessons.

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it.

I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.

I'd like to have the script in a much better place from day one of shooting, rather than trying to continue to work on it while you shoot it. I think those are lessons you learn on any film.

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

I don't spend much time regretting the past, once I've taken my lesson from it. I don't dwell on it.

I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.

I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying.

I don't know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the numbers. I've been told basically everyone in Monaco speaks English because of it being a huge vacation spot so I'm excited about that. I might not need to learn French after all.

If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood.

I fail all the time, but we are all just human and imperfect, but you know what's best for you, so follow your gut. That's probably my biggest life lesson, follow your gut.

I feel like I always had a yin and yang experience with music. I've always been able to rock out, and then I've always had to take piano lessons, too.

If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect - its effect upon conscious experience - we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young.

If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.