When you enter social studies teacher Daniel Gill’s Glenfield Middle School classroom in Montclair, New Jersey, you will notice a lone chair sitting in the center. It’s not for an administrator to occupy while observing the class, nor is it a time-out chair for unruly students. The empty chair is a reminder for the kindhearted …
Lesson
Don’t let past relationships and old mistakes ruin your future. Don’t let someone or something that didn’t make it in your life continue to hurt you. If you do, you’re still giving a portion of your life to something that no longer exists – it’s like letting your happiness slip into a black hole. Learn …
It is impossible to have everyone to like you, and it’s sometimes a difficult lesson to be reminded of. That’s when you just have to stand up, to take a deep breath, hold your chin up, and walk with as much grace as you can muster as you let as few tears fall as possible. …
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. — Danielle Steele
This is an important lesson to remember when you’re having a bad day, a bad month, or a bad year: things will change. You won’t feel this way forever. And sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most. I believe you can’t feel real joy unless you’ve felt a real …
You have to take the good with the bad, smile when you’re sad, love what you’ve got and remember what you had… Always forgive but never forget, learn from your mistakes but never regret, people change, things go wrong, just remember, life goes on. — Unknown