"I did not ask for the life that I was given, but it was given nonetheless, and with it I did my best." -Mr. Eko ("Lost")
Lesson: Give your all by playing the hand you're dealt. Nobody can ask any more than that of you, but you shouldn't settle for less.
"We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." -Dean Winchester ("Supernatural")
Lesson: It never hurts to be a jack of all trades. You'll be unlikely to find yourself in a situation where you're clueless or have no chances of survival.
"I've heard it both ways." - Shawn Spencer ("Psych")
Lesson: Don't admit you're wrong until you know you're wrong and there is definitive proof that says so.
"Don't be exactly half of an 11-pound Black Forest ham." -Shawn Spencer ("Psych")
Lesson: Never be half of the whole that you are fully capable of being.
"Don't be the American version of British TV." -Shawn Spencer ("Psych")
Lesson: Don't be a knockoff of someone or something original. You'll never reach true greatness.
"The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. Hey. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice-versa, the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant." -The 11th Doctor ("Doctor Who")
Lesson: Live life thankful for some bad things here and there that make us appreciate the good things and make them worth living for.
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile. You might miss it." -Ferris Bueller ("Ferris Bueller's Day Off")
Lesson: Don't be a workaholic everyday, and don't bet on having free days later in life to do what you should do now. Life can begin or end in a day.
"Compromise where you can. Where you can't, don't. Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right. Even if the whole world is telling you to move, it is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye, and say, 'No, you move'." -Sharon Carter, quoting her aunt, Peggy Carter ("Captain America: Civil War")
Lesson: Do what you know is right. Even if you face the world alone.
"Carpe diem. Seize the day boys. Make your lives extraordinary." -John Keating ("Dead Poets Society")
Lesson: Let no day pass by and be wasted. Make the most of every moment you have in each day of life. Live a life worth remembering.
"Do, or do not. There is no try." -Yoda
Lesson: Simple enough. I think we all know what Yoda is saying here.
"We all have light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are." -Sirius Black ("Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix")
Lesson: Circumstances don't make us, and abilities don't limit us. We are who we choose to be. Our choices define us, not our capacity for good or evil.
"Dying people lie, too. Wish they'd worked less, they'd been nicer, they'd opened orphanages for kittens. If you really want to do something, you do it. You don't save it for a sound bite." -Dr. Gregory House ("House")
Lesson: Don't be a pretender, and don't leave the most important things to the side to regret at the end of life. If you really believe you ought to do something, make it happen.
"To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, to draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life." -Walter Mitty ("The Secret Life of Walter Mitty")
Lesson: Don't live in a bubble. Get out and see the world. Be curious. Be adventurous. Meet all kinds of people. Love and let yourself be loved.
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." -Gandalf ("The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring")
Lesson: We've all got a limited time in the world. Only we decide how it's best spent.
"I know what I've got to do now. I've got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?" -Chuck Noland ("Cast Away")
Lesson: Never give up on life. Good things don't always wash up on the shore, but do you really want to not be there if they ever do?
"Everyone who's alive right now, everyone who's made it this far. We've all done the worst kinds of things just to stay alive. But we can still come back. We're not too far gone. We get to come back. I know we all can change." -Rick Grimes ("The Walking Dead")
Lesson: No matter who you are. No matter what you have done in life. You're never unforgivable. You're never a hopeless case or a lost cause. You can change and you can be normal again. You can be the person you dream of being.
