The most important lesson we learn in life is what creates pain for us and what creates pleasure.

إن أبلغ درس يتعلمه الإنسان من الحياة هو أنه ليس هناك ألم لايستطيع المرء أن يتخلص منه بعد فترة معقولة من الزمن، أو أن يصادقه ويتعايش معه أو يحيله الي أنس وسعادة؛ بشيء من سعة الأفق وعمق البصيرة، والنظرة الشاملة للحياة التي تُري كل مافيها من جوانب، فالسعادة والألم لا يتركزان فقط على جوانب الإنسان الخاصة.

إن أحد الدروس الأساسية للحياة هي أن نتعلم كيف ندرك لماذا نفعل ما نفعل

The most important learning is the ability to accept and expect mistakes, and deal with the disappointments that they bring.

What matters most is that we learn from living.

By far the most vital lesson I have ever learned is the importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are. Our thoughts make us what we are.

We survive by learning from pain

Thankfully, life is a university. Everything that you do or experience can teach you something, triggering inside you new thoughts, insights and realizations. You might be inclined to forget or ignore experiences that did not go well. Don’t. Learning from your mistakes and things that cause you pain is invaluable. The greatest lessons can come from the lowest moments in your life.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

We’re born knowing how to trust our instincts, how to breathe deeply, how to eat only when we’re hungry, how to not care about what anyone thinks of our singing voices, dance moves, or hairdos, we know how to play, create, and love without holding back. Then, as we grow and learn from the people around us, we replace many of these primal understandings with negative false beliefs, fear, shame, and self-doubt. Then we wind up in emotional and physical pain. Then we either numb our pain with drugs, sex, booze, TV, Cheetos, etc. Or we settle for mediocrity. OR we rise to the occasion, remember how truly mighty we are, and set out to relearn everything we knew at the beginning all over again.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage — and indeed perhaps more.

We believe that, ultimately, the most important learning occurs in the context of our day-to-day life, the aspirations we pursue, the challenges we face, and the responses we bring forth.

One of the most profound lessons I’ve learnt is that time and chance happen to us all.