Quotes About Life Lessons

Meaningful quotes about life often encourage a life without borders. We’re encouraged to explore far and wide, meet new people, and stack up as many adventures as possible. Here are some interesting quotes about just that:

• “In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.” - Charlie Brown
• “If we're always looking in the rearview mirror, it's hard to keep our eyes on the road ahead.” - Anonymous
• “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.” - Gerard Way
• “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” - Sir Winston Churchill
• “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” - Robert Frost
• “Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.” - John Lennon
• “Live well, laugh often, love much.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn.” - David Russell
• “Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” - Hans Christian Andersen
• “Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.” - John Wooden
• “God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.” - Stanley Lindquist

Inspirational life lessons are often founded in mistakes. In fact, some would say a life without mistakes is a life not worth living. The beauty of a mistake is that, sometimes, it can bring us to greater heights. Through our missteps, we learn something new and can apply it to other areas of our lives. Together, let’s stay humble and enjoy these quotes about our (inevitable) mistakes:

• “Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” - Sophia Loren
• “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” - Henry Ford
• “You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.” - Anne Lamott
• “Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.” - Al Franken
• “Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.” - Oscar Wilde
• “At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.” - Benjamin Franklin
• “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

Most of our life lessons are learned through mistakes and hard times. Without a sense of humor, these times would be unbearable. Let’s lighten things up with some musings on the power of a sense of humor.

• “If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.” - John Kenneth Galbraith
• “Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer.” - Ellen DeGeneres
• “All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.” - Jane Wagner
• “When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.” - Cathy Guisewite
• “Never trust people who smile constantly. They’re either selling something or not very bright.” - Laurell K. Hamilton
• “The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn.” - David Russell
• “Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyways.” - Sydney J. Harris
• “Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you’ll be a mile from them, and you’ll have their shoes.” - Jack Handey

The more we read and observe others, the more we learn. Life lessons don’t necessarily have to happen to you in order for them to be useful. Rather, you can learn from the good times and the bad times that other people experience too.

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