lessons learned

Acting on our interests refines our understanding of what we are good at and what we value. The experiences we have along the way sometimes introduce us to new values that enhance and enlarge our vision. The lessons we learn through habits of action test our understanding and teach us to identify what matters in our life.

— Marian Deegan

And I realized that some things just don't work that way. Life isn't a fairy tail. And the person you fall in love with doesn't always love you back. But that's ok, because at the very least it makes you stronger. And brings you to a place where you can fall in love with yourself. And that to me is more important than finding someone that only makes you complete when they are around, It's really about Finding the person that will teach you ALL the lessons you need to know ...so that you feel complete all by yourself. 

— Bethany Brookbank

And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices... life.

— Nicole Lyons

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were.

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

A universal truth that most mature women have learned, often the hard way.... When choosing a mate, keep in mind, only nature has the ability to turn sand into pearls. If the relationship isn't happy, healthy, or working, move on... unless of course you prefer sand.

— K.E. Garvey

A woman should never go so far with someone, that she cannot come back alone...not for love.not for society…not for herself. It took me so long to find my way back.

— Priyanka Naik

Celebrate the Ides of March but remember your own warnings less as Caesar learned, you can get killed in many ways

— Phillip Gary Smith

Challenges are lessons to be learned, then overcome.

— Lee Bice-Matheson

Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.

— Shannon L. Alder

Decide. Take one of the most unsettling things you feel exist in your life and decide. Decide to meet it with love and understanding. Decide to meet it with a proactive spirit that believes that a solution, an ease, a peaceful resolve rests in the meeting. Prepare your heart for what it feels like to be joyous over the result. Give life to this solution with your breath. Let any fear be a helpmate, let it actually support and lift you to an awareness that your next opportunity for growth is revisiting you through this present unsettling because you are now more than capable and authentically ready to meet it. Learn and value the lesson and transcend its repetitive nature.

— David Ault