life lesson

noun

1. something from which useful knowledge or principles can be learned

Example Sentences

The thing self-help books tend not to tell you—the thing they brush aside because their authors have to, you know, sell books—is that we usually don’t get to choose when and where we learn a life lesson.

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That’s more of a life lesson than I thought I would receive when I bought it.

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A goalkeeper and then a midfielder, he tried out for Manchester United where he learned the life lesson that he was "good but not good enough".

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When I see comedians indulge in that, where they’re giving a life lesson talk, I want to tell them, “No one came here for this. You are there to be funny.”

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"The biggest life lesson I have learned from him is that, even if you really want to express something, there are hundreds of millions of people watching, and the way you do it is super-important."

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