I remember getting an email years ago about how different life would be if we could "live life backwards." Just imagine starting your life with all of the lessons you've learned; your regrets on opportunities that you've passed on; the trivial things that sucked all life out of you that shouldn't have; the things that you have never seen as a top priority. I could go on and on! Unfortunately, as Helen Keller said "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
Although it will take some time for my kids to understand what my life lessons mean, I want to share 11 quotes that embody the principles that I've tried to live by:
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1. "Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth." Alfred de Souza
2. "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." Helen Keller
3. "Do one thing every day that scares you." Eleanor Roosevelt
4. "We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." Dolly Parton
5. "I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains." Anne Frank
6. "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference." Reinhold Niebuhr, The Serenity Prayer
7. "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Maya Angelou
8. "Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently." Maya Angelou
9. "For my daughter: if you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman." Margaret Thatcher
10. "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will." Vince Lombardi
11. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart!" Hellen Keller
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