Life Lessons Quote by Philip Pullman — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“You are so young, Lyra, too young to understand this, but I shall tell you anyway and you'll understand it later: men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain. We bear their children, who are witches if they are female, human if not; and then in the blink of an eye they are gone, felled, slain, lost. Our sons, too. When a little boy is growing, he thinks he is immortal. His mother knows he isn't. Each time becomes more painful, until finally your heart is broken. Perhaps that is when Yambe-Akka comes for you. She is older than the tundra. Perhaps, for her, witches' lives are as brief as men's are to us.”

“There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.”

“Occasionally they would hear a harsh croak or a splash as some amphibian was disturbed, but the only creature they saw was a toad as big as Will's foot, which could only flop in a pain-filled sideways heave as if it were horribly injured. It lay across the path, trying to move out of the way and looking at them as if it knew they meant to hurt it.”

“Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, that she could command these immortal presences. And she rejoiced in her blood and flesh, in the rough pine bark she felt next to her skin, in the beat of her heart and the life of all her senses, and in the hunger she was feeling now, and in the presence of her sweet-voiced bluethroat dæmon, and in the earth below her and the lives of every creature, plant and animal both; and she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her.”

“You need to understand that you can only access an open door by walking away from the one that closes on you.”

“Live simply, travel lightly, love passionately, and don't forget to breathe.”

“There are songs you should not sing if you want to succeed. Songs that make you feel weak. Songs that make you bleed from within. Songs that make you question your abilities. Songs that make you stop dreaming. Those are songs you should certainly never sing.”

“Wake up and do what is right. Do not cry over closed doors. Work your way up until a better door opens.”

“Evaluate where you may have fallen and what you need to do to make progress. Acknowledge your setbacks as valuable lessons. Regain your strength and be resilient in your journey to success.”

“Rise with the strength of a thousand dreams. Rise from the deepest parts of your spirit. Rise and fulfil your destiny. Rise because the world is waiting for you to win.”