“A child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.”
African Proverb
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LifeLife Lessons
266 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.
“Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.”
Guinean Proverb
“When the music changes, so does the dance.”
Hausa Proverb
“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.”
African Proverb
“It takes a village to raise a child.”
West African Proverb
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
Ernest Hemingway · The Wild Years, 1962
“Saturday morning, you knew what you were gonna do. There was no question about it. You wake up, eat your cereal, watch cartoons.”
Joe Mantegna
“Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.”
Richard Nelson Bolles
“I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.”
Audrey Hepburn
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life. The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.”
Steve Jobs · Stanford University commencement, 2005
“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.”
Sean Patrick Flanery
“We commanded man to be good to his parents. His mother carried him with increasing weakness, and his weaning takes 2 years. Be grateful to Me and to your parents.”
Luqman · Quran, Surah Luqman 31:14
“You've been so alone. And you think that's the price of being extraordinary. And maybe it is. But you've been paying it so long.”
Molly Hooper · BBC Sherlock, Series 4, Episode 3: The Final Problem, 2017
“You're not haunted by the war, Dr. Watson. You miss it.”
Sherlock Holmes · BBC Sherlock, Series 1, Episode 1: A Study in Pink, 2010
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
Søren Kierkegaard · Journals, 1843
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde · The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
Robert Byrne
