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“Great losses are great lessons.”

“And it seemed to me that even if you weren’t actively letting your emotions ride its surface, the ocean still went on giving you something, teaching you some sort of lesson. Perhaps that was why I had never actually considered its existence before—never really thought about the thundering of the waves as they sweep in endlessly toward the shore. But since I was thinking about it, what on earth did people in the city turn to when they felt the need to reckon with “balance"? Maybe the moon? That seemed like the obvious choice. But then the moon was so small and far away, and something about it felt sort of lonely, and it didn’t seem like it would really help . . .”

“The first lesson in constructing viral content is having the strength, courage, and self-confidence to get in touch with your own feelings, thinking about what profoundly affects you.”

“We may take as our guide, here, John Dewey's observation that the content of a lesson is the least important thing about learning. As he wrote in Experience and Education, "Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only what he is studying at the time. Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes may be and often is more important than the spelling lesson, or the lesson in geography or history. For these attitudes are fundamentally what count in the future." In other words, the most important thing one learns is always something about *how* one learns. As Dewey wrote in another place, "We learn what we do.”

“LIFE TEACHES YOU THAT YOU'D MEET TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE. 1. WHO WILL STEP BACK AS SOON AS THEY FIND YOU ARE POWERLESS AND IN NEED OF SUPPORT. 2. WHO WOULD COME FORWARD TO FEED ON YOUR WEAKNESS AND TAKE OPPORTUNITY FIRST IN RETURN OF THE SUPPORT. YOU CAN'T HELP FALLING BECAUSE IT'S A ROLLERCOASTER LIFE. YOU FALL TODAY, YOU'LL RISE TOMORROW.. BUT MAKE SURE WHEN YOU FALL WEAK, PEOPLE DON'T NIBBLE ON YOUR WOUNDS.”

“او گفت: (( من دوست ندارم یکی از اون مردهای مرفه باشم فقط چون رفاه حال می ده. اونایی که می گن چه اشکالی داره آدم تمام روز خوش باشه و اسب سواری کنه و از زندگی لذت ببره چوم ...)) با بی قیدی شانه اش را بالا انداخت و ادامه داد: نگرانی معنی نداره! من نیاز دارم که کار کنم.”

“For what was it about books that once finished left the reader in a bit of a haze and made them reread the last few sentences in order to continue the ringing in their hearts a while longer, so as not to let the silence illumine the fact that reading, they had gained something — distance, a lesson, a companion, a new world — but now, after the last full stop, they had lost something palpable and felt a little emptier than before.”

“Each time we talk, he listens to me ramble, then he tries to pass on some sort of life lesson. He warns me that money is not the most important thing, contrary to the popular view on campus. He tells me I need to be "fully human." He speaks of the alienation of youth and the need for "connectedness" with the society around me.”

“You can lead and motivate people without a certificate or title, what you need to do is to tell people a compelling secret that was only known to you.”

“Anika had the door halfway closed, but she paused at my question. ‘My mum used to say that you have two hands: one to help yourself, and one to help others. So yes, I think it’s a good thing.’ Then she sighed. ‘Though sometimes I wonder if the hand we use to help others moves a bit slower and with a little less purpose than the one we use to help ourselves.’ And with that, she closed the door.”

“Empathy teaches this lesson; it is one of the feelings we are put on Earth to learn, a key aspect of our preparation for immortality. It is difficult lesson in that we must experience it not only in our mind but in our physical bodies, and in the mind and body we have pain, dark emotions, difficult relationships, enemies, loss and grief. We thus tend to forget others and concentrate on ourselves. But we also have love, beauty, music, art, dance, nature, and air, and we long to share them. We cannot transform negativity into the positive without empathy, and we cannot truly understand empathy without experiencing it in our present life, in our past, and in our future.”