“Once, once for all, if you would save your heart from breaking, learn this lesson once for all you must cease, in this world, to believe in the eternity of any creed or form at all. Whatever grows in time is a child of time, and is born and lives, and dies at its appointed day like ourselves.” IfsWorldBelieveHeartChildrenFormDiesGrowsBornThis WorldLessonsEternityCeaseCreeds Book:The Nemesis of Faith Source: The Nemesis of Faith
“Let me follow in Thy footsteps, O Jesus ! I would imitate Thee, but cannot without the aid of Thy grace! O humble and lowly Saviour, grant me the knowledge of the true Christian, and that I may willingly despise myself; let me learn the lesson so incomprehensible to the mind of man, that I must die to myself by an abandonment that shall produce true humility.” MenMindMayChristianDiesJesusGraceProduceHumilityLessonsLet MeHumbleAidsTheeGrantsDespiseAbandonmentSaviourFootstepsTrue Humility Author:Francois Fenelon
“But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.” MenStillsDiesHeavenChristTeachLessonsHarderPity Book:The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus Source: The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus
“In our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever...listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, It is all one vast awakened thing. We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere: Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It's a dream already ended.” WorldMindIdeasSelfDreamRememberDiesBornSilenceKnownForeverOne ThingLessonsIllusionEssenceMortalsImaginaryAwakenedAlright Author:Jack Kerouac
“At the heart of good education are those gifted, hardworking, and memorable teachers whose inspiration kindles fires that never quite go out, whose remembered encouragement is sometimes the only hard ground we stand upon, and whose very selves are the stuff of the best lessons they ever teach us. Most of us, no matter how long ago it's been, can name our kindergarten teacher. Our first music teacher. Our junior high algebra teacher. Good teachers never die.” FirstsHeartLongSelfSometimesMatterHardInspirationDiesNamesStuffEducationTeachFireTeacherTeachingLessonsEncouragementRememberedMemorableLong AgoGiftedNever QuitJuniorsGood TeacherKindlesAlgebraKindergartenHardworkingGood EducationJunior HighMusic TeacherKindergarten TeacherKindle Fire Author:Rosalie Maggio
“I want you to learn the lesson of the lotus. This flower springs forth from muddy waters. It raises its delicate petals to the sun and perfumes the world while, at the same time, its roots cling to the elemental muck, the very essence of the mortal experience. Without that soil, the flower would wither and die.” WorldWantDiesWaterSunFlowerLessonsSpringRootsEssenceRaisesMortalsSoilDelicateI Want YouPerfumePetalsMuddyElementalsLotuses Author:Colleen Houck