A Quote by Lev Grossman

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

Lev Grossman

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Lev Grossman
American - Novelist
Born: June 26, 1969

Life is a wonderful teacher who teaches us every lesson about how to survive in this world.

Wiz Khalifa

But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this: pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Lance Armstrong

Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

Baron de Montesquieu

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

Sam Abell

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Tom Bodett

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John William Strutt

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Frederick Lenz

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Steven Stucky

Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up - it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and like running water, when it stops it grows stale. Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson. Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not.

Bruce Lee

Life is like a confused teacher...first she gives the test and then teaches the lesson

Drake

I will go to my grave wishing that I did more. Wishing that I didn't sleep as much. Wishing that I didn't waste so much time. Wishing that I fought harder.