The most you learn in school is how to count numbers, subtract, add and multiply. But anime will teach you things no school will dare to teach. Like the importance of setting goals, following your own path, and following your dreams. Here are 31 powerful anime life lessons you can learn from.
Being alone isn’t a bad thing
Being alone is not synonymous with being lonely. Being lonely is an emotional state, causing you to feel unhappy because you’re by yourself.
Being alone is better than being with the wrong person
Being alone and happy, being around people who don’t give a F about you, is a better alternative to being unhappy and being around unsupportive people.
You can’t sit around envying others
You have to go out and change your own.
The world can’t be changed with pretty words alone
Change starts with action.
The world is a cruel place full of cruel people
Pranks. Making fun of others to make yourself feel better.
Being alive is a miracle
Most of us take for granted the fact that we are alive. If you are alive, and you have your arms and legs, and are healthy, what have you got to complain about
- The world is cruel and unforgiving, but if you are healthy and alive, there is little you can complain about
Making excuses is a waste of energy
The one making your choices is yourself
Your time is limited, so start working on your goals TODAY
You’re human. You’re not invincible.
- People die everyday, and someday we’re going to die too.
- Start working on AND thinking about what you want to accomplish today. You might regret it later.
Rules aren’t made for us, they’re made for the people who created it
Don’t think that by abiding by the rules you’ll automatically be useful to society.
- Rules are there for the person who made them, not just the reality and future, which are bound by these lies.
Kindness starts with making a decision
Don’t use your “pain” as an excuse to hurt others.
- Just because you’re “life is hard” doesn’t mean it’s OK to inflict your pain onto others, just to make yourself feel better.
- Choose to be kind instead.
People judge you by your actions, not your intentions
You might intend to do the right thing, and intentions can be pure.
How you treat others says more about YOU than it does about them
Being nice to others makes you more trustworthy and respectable.
Everybody has a dark side
We start out pure when we’re babies. Then along the way we’re influenced by the world, for better or for worse.
It’s better to apologize even if you’re not at fault
Don’t argue just to prove a point
- Being angry consumes energy and makes you tired, so you’d rather apologize
- Besides, you get along, and you both want to stay friends
- Your pride doesn’t mean shit
Success is a state of mind
The difference between a person who succeeds and a failure is how they think
- Success is mostly a matter of mind, and it is up to the person to decide when to quit and when to continue to strive for the goal
- “The one’s who accomplish true greatness, are the foolish who keep pressing onward.”
- Celica Arnold
Self pity is the enemy to happiness
The more you pity yourself, the more horrible you’ll begin to feel. Until it literally becomes your own worst nightmare.
How you perceive someone is their true identity
Sometimes on the surface it’s impossible to know someone’s true intentions
- So all you can do is trust and believe what you see is who they really are
- Perception does create reality, even if what we perceive is a false assumption or simply not true
