I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived.
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.
Allowing the truth of who you are--your spiritual self--to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life.
"When we give thanks in all things, we see hardships and adversities in the context of the purpose of life... We are meant to learn and grow through opposition, through meeting our challenges, and through teaching others to do the same... the Lord will not only consecrate our afflictions for our gain, but He will use them to bless the lives of countless others."
"You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do."
"Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die." Seneca (Roman philosopher)
Fear is a great teacher. It shows you what you still need to learn.
"Through seeing places in the little nooks and crannies all over the world made me come to the realization that wealth isn't a measure of materials; Rather it is how happy and content you are with yourself and your surroundings. If you truly are happy with who you are as person (provided that you have basic needs) who's to say that you are not wealthy?"
I really have a longing to help others; in fact my favorite quote is by Aesop-"No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."
I want be a person who can light up someone's day and make them feel better about themselves.
Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in.
. . . Take the tone of the company that you are in.
Play, Learn, and Pass it on.
An ye harn none, learn and have fun!
Can't you see that the dream that sprouts in your hearts is your mission on Earth? Live. Evolve. Don't be afraid of learning.
I am at the same time both teacher and student mostly teaching myself or at least learning how to learn which may be the most important lesson of all in which case I may be my own best teacher because if I pay close enough attention to myself then I can see my own pitfalls as well as my strengths as long as I ALSO notice the times when my ego is involved and I then transcend my own ignorance and barriers to learning.
Perhaps the only real teacher is the person themselves and perhaps it is only when the person themselves allows themselves to teach themselves that the person truly learns and then both teacher and student appear simultaneously?
The more things I learn the worse it gets. Knowledge might be power, but knowledge can quickly become a brain gone crazy.
Failures are your stepping stones to success as long as you investigate your footprints and learn from them.
The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail.
We teach best what we need to learn most.
The degree to which you accept your limitations determines the degree to which you find you're unlimited.
"I believe,in life you must be all you can be,You learn who you are,And you know all life's about,And you know where you're going"-Chestlyn
To LEARN is to LIVE.
To stop learning is to inevitably stop living.
Strength is not ust victory, but the ability to fail with integrity and take tfe lessons of losing and weakness as oportunites to learn.
We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.
Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationships, context.
One must marvel at the intellectual quality of a teacher who can't understand why children assault one another in the hallway, playground, and city street, when in the classroom the highest accolades are reserved for those who have beaten their peers. In many subtle and some not so subtle ways, teachers demonstrate that what children learn means much less than that they triumph over their classmates. Is this not assault? . . . Classroom defeat is only the pebble that creates widening ripples of hostility. It is self-perpetuating. It is reinforced by peer censure, parental disapproval, and loss of self-concept. If the classroom is a model, and if that classroom models competition, assault in the hallways should surprise no one.
To one who, journeying through night and fog,
Is mired neck-deep in an unwholesome bog,
Experience, like the rising of the dawn,
Reveals the path that he should not have gone.
Live as you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian nationalist leader, 1869-1948)
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
