Life-experience Quotes

Oh, once you’ve been initiated into the Elderly, the world doesn’t want you back.” Veronica settled ...

That was the splendid thing about life: Though it was cruel, it was also mysterious, filled with won...

In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my lif...

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

Petnaest srećnih godina su kratke - odgovorih. Petnaest nesrećnih godina su duge i pružaju čoveku mn...

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires tha...

The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them...

The military was providing him (George H.W. Bush) with an education that was not available at Andove...

In the society of would-be-gods, a humble man is always polite.

Kelly was not going to remove her glasses. No matter what the television said about it being safe to...

Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can se...

If I sound as if I'm always predicting ominous things, it's because I'm a pragmatist. I use deductiv...

In any case, suffice it to say I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole stor...

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children...

...that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn’t know who I ...

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only ...

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Things are continually beginning again; they’re never really resolved, you know. They are only resol...

We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always t...

. . . we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live...

I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this is ...

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I ...

The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass,...

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heig...

oh what can i do life is beautiful but you don't have a clue.

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad...

I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they ca...

Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time ...

Of course. I am well aware that the streets of New York are not safe, but then there is no longer an...

Being alive hurts. I have found it best not to rush for the aspirin bottle. - A Severed Wasp

My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...

There are a thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.

I learned about lifefrom life itself,love I learned in a single kissand could teach no one anythinge...

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

and dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That w...

There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.

To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this...

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a...

We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.

You'll go far. How do I know? Because life is goosing you so hard you'll never stop climbing.

Hanging on in Quiet Desperation is the English Way

Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods.

To be sure, the Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom, even when it takes you through the Val...

Advice," Doña Vorchenza chuckled. "Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting on...

Get some sleep. Our troubles will still be there on the morrow

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is...

You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes bac...

I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something... s...

We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we starte...

What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and ...

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

On the top of Cadair Idris,I felt how happy a man might bewith a little money and a sane intellect,a...

the greatest men that ever live pass away unknown. they put forth no claims for themselves, establis...

I know I do everything. I've been doing everything for an awfully long time, and I've seen and lived...

Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you.

It was awful, he cried, awful, awful!Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life...

I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselv...

I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anythi...

Once in a very blue moon, John Tallow imagined his younger self standing down the timeline of his pr...

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Girls say to me, very reasonably, 'why isn't it a bunch of girls? Why did you write this about a bun...

I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good en...

Be the music of your soul. Don't be a pawn in someone else's game.

The formula of life is simple. It is the formula of giving - giving courage, attention, peace, love ...

Life has only one equation. The equation of giving.

If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by cou...

Caring a tree is caring of your soul.

I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in t...

Look back on your life and find something small that made a big difference.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired. I want...

Human relationships were strange. I mean, you were with one person a while, eating and sleeping and ...

The cruelest thing you can do tosomeone is force them to hurt alone