Lessons from Life

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors,
and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
- George Washington

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
- B.F. Skinner

The difference between school and life?
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test.
In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
- Tom Bodett

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats

The lessons of the past provide the path to the future.
- Anonymous

Never stop learning. Look for further education in all of life.

Further reading: The Book of Life: Mystery and Riddle

Question Your Questions

Joy Blooms Where Minds and Hearts are Open

Perspective on Tradition: An Open Mind

Maybe So, Maybe Not. - Ancient Taoist Proverb

Choosing Your Destination

If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about
and let that guide you to your destination.
- Diane Sawyer

All you need is the plan, the road map,
and the courage to press on to your destination.
- Earl Nightingale

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final
destination and usually the best way to get there.
- H. Stanley Judd

Destiny is not a matter of chance,
It is a matter of choice.
It is not something to be waited for,
But rather something to be achieved.
- William Jennings Bryan

One's destination is never a place
but rather a new way of looking at things.
- Henry Miller

Further reading: How to Choose Your Life Purpose

Where does your path lead?

Why?

Creating Your Own Future

Purpose and Direction

How to Make a Decision You Won't Regret

Speaking while Angry

Speak when you are angry -- and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
- Cato

Laughter drives shouting away.
- Indra Devi

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another -
until we speak quietly enough so that our words can
be heard as well as our voices.
- Richard M. Nixon

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
- Publilius Syrus

Further reading: Stop Anger Before It Stops You

Restraint

Frustration

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.

Moderating the Anger Response Through Training

Your Intuition is Your Guide

Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk

Your inner knowing is your only true compass.
- Joy Page

Everyone who wills, can hear the inner voice.
It is within everyone.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs

You have to leave the city of your comfort
and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful.
What you'll discover is yourself.
- Alan Alda

Further reading: Choose to Follow Your Heart

How to Be Yourself

The Beat of the Universe

Need For Approval

Your Heart's Longing

The important differences between self esteem and self confidence

Being at Peace

Your worst days are never so bad
that you are beyond the reach of God's grace.
And your best days are never so good
that you are beyond the need of God's grace.
- Anonymous

The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
- Anonymous

The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can have everything you ever need - just by asking.
All you ever need is to have inner peace, and
You always have access to The Peace Of God Which Passeth All Understanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want...
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: for thou art with me
- Psalm 23

Further reading: God Grant Me The Wisdom

Inner Peace in a World at War

Finding Peace in Forgiveness

Cease Striving

Choose Joy Anyway