LESSONS OF LIFE


  • Life teaches that it's not what you have in your life,
    but who you have in your life that matters.

  • Life teaches that it takes years to build trust,
    and only seconds to destroy it.

  • Life teaches that you can do something in an instant,
    that will give you heartache for life.

  • Life teaches that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.

  • Life teaches that you can keep going,
    long after you can't.

  • Life teaches that either you control your attitude,
    or it controls you.

  • Life teaches that regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship,
    passion fades and, hopefully, there will be something to take its place.

  • Life teaches that our background influences who we are,
    but we are responsible for who we become.

  • Life teaches that money is a lousy way of keeping score.

  • Life teaches that no matter how much I care,
    some people just don't care back.

  • Life teaches that my best friend and I can do anything or nothing,
    and have the best time.

  • Life teaches that sometimes those you expect to kick you when you're down, are the ones who pick you up.

  • Life teaches that sometimes I have the right to be angry,
    but never the right to be cruel.

  • Life teaches that maturity has more to do with learning,
    and less to do with age.

  • Life teaches that you can get by on charm for about fifteen minutes.
    After that, you'd better know something.

  • Life teaches that families aren't biological.

  • Life teaches that it isn't always enough to be forgiven by others.
    We must learn to forgive ourselves.

  • Life teaches that no matter how bad your heart is broken,
    the world doesn't stop for your grief.

  • Life teaches that we don't have to change friends,
    if we understand that friends change.

  • Life teaches that you shouldn't be so eager to find out a secret.
    It could change your life forever.

  • Life teaches that two people can look at the exact same thing
    and see something totally different.

  • Life teaches that no matter how you try to protect your children,
    they will get hurt and you will hurt in the process.

  • Life teaches that your life can be changed in a matter of hours
    by people you don't even know.

  • Life teaches that you cannot make someone love you.
    All you can do is be someone who can be loved.

  • Life teaches that credentials on the wall
    do not make you a decent human being.

  • Life teaches that the people you care about most in life
    are taken from you too soon.


    There are Lessons.. and then there are lessons:

  • I've learned that it takes years to build up trust,
    and it only takes suspicion, not proof, to destroy it.

  • I've learned that you shouldn't compare yourself to others...
    they are more messed up than you think.

  • I've learned that you can keep puking
    long after you think you're finished.

  • I've learned that we are responsible
    for what we do, unless we are celebrities.

  • I've learned that when the passion fades,
    there had better be a lot of money to take its place.

  • I've learned that the people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon, and all the less important ones just never go away.
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