Marianne Williamson Quotes

It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me.

I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age.

All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.

Every step of the way I think you learn something that makes you a better player, and all those lessons really come out when it matters the most in a championship.

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

When you make a mistake, be excited! Analyze what happened, and learn from it.

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.

Of course, I came up around music and fame, but this is still my first time experiencing it all. I'm still going through it like anybody else goes through it. But I'm still doing something I've never done before.

The universe does not judge us; it only provides consequences and lessons and opportunities to balance and learn through the law of cause and effect. Compassion is the recognition that we are each doing the best we can within the limits of our current beliefs and capacities.

Speak and live in simple sentences. Bring closure -- put a period to -- those experiences that you don't want to carry on forever and ever. Use commas in those places where you're still growing... and use exclamation points at the end of every lesson.

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.

I wonder why I never learn my lesson. It's feeling like the second chance and it's the first impression

Anything that becomes an obstacle in life is only an opportunity to learn and it's the same in any profession I think.

Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes.

There are some things you can give another person, and some things you cannot give him, except as he is willing to reach out and take them, and pay the price of making them a part of himself. This principle applies to studying, to developing talents, to absorbing knowledge, to acquiring skills, and to the learning of all the lessons of life.

Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem like a waste of time. I remember that feeling well. But don't worry about wasting time, because it'll be so worth it. It's my experience that in the end, life lessons and guitar lessons begin to blur in all sorts of interesting ways.

Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.

No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood. If you didn't, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right.

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.

[Visiting Richard Nixon] useful only to me. The experience taught me that when people do something against you, that something always turns out in your favor.