"The games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become."

Lesson, Wisdom, Future, Today

37

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become."

Exlpore more Lesson quotes

"Not only do our trials become classrooms that teach us life's most profound lessons, they add joy and meaning to daily living."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Lesson, Trials, Joy, Meaning

"We learn invaluable life lessons from people whom exhibit courage and grace under extraordinary circumstances."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Lesson, Courage, Grace, Adversity

"Life's greatest lessons were not shown to me, read to me, illustrated or explained to me; they happened to me."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Lesson, Inspirational, Truth, Life, Wisdom

"Life teaches us many lessons daily, even from our mishaps, only if we pay attention."

Bernard Kelvin Clive, Ghanaian Author

Lesson, Mistake, Attention, Growth

"If you have never reached rock bottom, you have never attended the school of greatness."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Lesson, Rock Bottom, School of Greatness

"Then the Warrior realizes that these repeated experiences have but one aim: to teach him what he does not want to learn."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Lesson, Repetition, Truth, Learning

"It is by your own that you have to learn a lesson and they by themselves so that they will blame you not."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Lesson, Blame, Self, Learning

"Failure is a success if you learn from it."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Lesson, Failure, Success, Learning

"Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say."

Anthony Burgess, English Novelist

Lesson, Learning, Life, Wisdom

"Don't be afraid to bite on a giant, learn from the mosquito."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Lesson, Courage, Learning, Strength

Explore more quotes by Terry Pratchett

"He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind him and shouting at him."

Body

"But she's going to have a lot of problems."THAT'S WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT. SO I'M TOLD. I WOULDN'T KNOW, OF COURSE."What about reincarnation?"Death hesitated.YOU WOULDN'T LIKE IT, he said. TAKE IT FROM ME."I've heard that some people do it all the time."YOU'VE GOT TO BE TRAINED TO IT. YOU'VE GOT TO START OFF SMALL AND WORK UP. YOU'VE NO IDEA HOW HORRIBLE IT IS TO BE AN ANT."It's bad?"YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE IT. AND WITH YOUR KARMA AN ANT IS TOO MUCH TO EXPECT."

Philosophy

"And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior."

Philosophy

"In fact the Gods were as puzzled by all this as the wizards were, but they were powerless to do anything and in any case were engaged in an eons-old battle with the Ice Giants, who had refused to return the lawnmower."

Fantasy

"First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft."

Wisdom

"There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can't, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having."

Life

"I just rearrange words into a pleasing order for money."

Success

"That's the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha! It's got no soul, sir, no heart."

Success

"It didn't have a name. Animals don't normally bother with them."

Emotion

"He stared at his feet. "I'm still very ignorant, he said, "but at least I'm ignorant about really important things."

Knowledge