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One of the most important of life?s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.
We'd met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.
Most things break including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom but to scar tissue and callus.
I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist so that if all goes well I may one day sit beside them.
I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.
I want to take piano lessons I want to study at university I want to travel I want to do other parts make another movie.
After this I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.
I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.
I guess by taking lessons early on and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice which I enjoyed and still do.
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons and the true teacher is the learner.
I learnt pity sympathy and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.
Before Huey was 5 I could take him to work with me. Now though he has sports and lessons and friends and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.
I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.
I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages sometimes I write them in a column sometimes in a novel sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'
The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey but also the life values - are sinking in.
Save for thee and thy lessons man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.
Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons responsibility and discipline and respect.
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story which engages the passions.
I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.
The lessons from the peace process are clear whatever life throws at us our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
Because I know about the Holy Land I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
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