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Life Lessons Quotes

"The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time"
Dante Alighieri
"Some things you forget. Other things you never do"
Toni Morrison
"The wisest man I ever knew in my life could not read or write"
Jose Saramago
"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us"
Joseph Campbell
"We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
Michel de Montaigne
"I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge? "
Elizabeth Gilbert
"At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent"
Barbara Bush
"Idleness is sweet and its consequences are cruel"
John Quincy Adams
"If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time"
Edith Wharton
"With everything that has happened to you you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing You get to choose"
Wayne Dyer
"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety"
Aesop
"Live all you can it's a mistake not to"
Henry James
"The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in"
Henry James
"Wealth is the slave of a wise man and the master of a fool."
Seneca
"We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us"
Marcel Proust
"The lesson I’ve learned the most often in life is that you’re always going to know more in the future than you know now "
Taylor Swift
"There are no little things. Little things are the hinges of the universe"
Victor Hugo
"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body"
George Carlin
"We need very little to make us happy; we need more to keep us that way."
Alain de Botton
"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."
Oscar Wilde