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Today I realized that I am nothing more than tomorrow's ghost. In a way, it robs my sense of self to know I'm always changing; at the same time, it provides incentive to have the best today possible so I can have a positive influence on tomorrow and, if need be, shake some sense into the living. (Samantha Green)
— Riley Noehren, Gravity vs. the Girl
We're all running away. Some of us just don't get very far.
— John Dunning, The Bookman's Wake
I didn't die, and that's the point. Doesn't matter how close you come if you walk away whole.
— Courtney Schafer, The Tainted City
Your attitude is a mirror of your believes.
— Radostin Chernev
We all draw breath and life from the same source of creation.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live simply, and eat sparingly, and recover the use of our legs, and get up early enough to see the sun rise. However, it has needed one: which is about the severest criticism our civilization could have.
— Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver
The real safety net of life is community, family and nature.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Life isn't about wasting. its to live!
— Mandeep Lakhan
There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
— Mary  Stewart
Each individual is born into life as a creation from the source, and as an inhabitant and visitor to this planet.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Living Life In The Fast Lane is Great...Until You Crash.
— David Murdock
Beautiful food and health are priceless.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Life is to short to worry about everything.
— Radostin Chernev
Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
— Aleatha Romig, Consequences
Some people believe that to find happiness, you should live each day of your life as if it's your last because that way you will appreciate every single moment you have. Other people believe that you should live each day as if it's your first because then every day can be the beginning of a new journey.
— Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
— Groucho Marx
What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and evil existed in the world came from within themselves and not from some abstract source.
— Terry Brooks, Armageddon's Children
And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read!
— A.A. Patawaran, Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator
Me"( Notice Me)I was sent here on a journey that has no end.I hear you joke of going nowhere fast.Well, maybe life’s a joke and I’m the foolThat dreams of being first but ends up last.Life’s a trial—a sentence I can’t escape.Confusion and desperation tear me down and turn to hate.There’s so much more to figure out,But it’s growing way too late.If I could answer half the questions in my mind,If I could find the place where I belong,If words were near as strong and deep as the wall of emotions I climbThen sorrow wouldn’t be so wrong.There’s no way to make you understand.An entire symphony could not play the broken notes in one child’s soul.That child screams and no one hears her,Until the tears have dried and now she’s just too old.I don’t want to hear the philosophies, the opinions,The remarks, the horrible reasonings.Words are to pad the mind and fight with the solitude of the heart.Still, silence chills to the bone and tears the soul apart.She never means to hurt or harm, only to belong.To find the truth ‘mid mortal lies, to sing her only song.But someday this race will end, and if she comes in last,I pray the first will look deeper than the others, smile, and then pass."Copyright 1985
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Sometimes we need to feel bad to know what it's like to feel good...
— Nitra Gipson, The Real Verdict: My Quest for the Freedom I Never Had
Policeman says, "Son you can't stay here"I said, "There's someone I'm waiting for if it's a day, a month, a year"Gotta stand my ground even if it rains or snowsIf she changes her mind this is the first place she will go
— The Script
It is not an unusual life curve for Westerners - to live i n and be shaped by the bigness, sparseness, space clarity & hopefulness of the West, to go away for study and enlargement and the perspective that distance and dissatisfaction can give, and then to return to what pleases the sight and enlists the loyalty and demands the commitment.
— Wallace Stegner, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs
Marcus looked down. “Ah, man! This was my favorite shirt. Who tore it?” he asked, trying to pull the ragged edges together.
— Ripley Patton, Ghost Hand
Though riches had charms, poverty had no terrors for an inexperiencedgirl like me. Indeed, to say the truth, there was something exhilaratingin the idea of being driven to straits, and thrown upon our own resources.I only wished papa, mamma, and Mary were all of the samemind as myself; and then, instead of lamenting past calamities we mightall cheerfully set to work to remedy them; and the greater the difficulties,the harder our present privations, the greater should be our cheerfulness to endure the latter, and our vigour to contend against the former.
— Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
My religion consists of laughing at myself. My motto is this: As long as there is a me, there is a reason to laugh out loud!
— C. JoyBell C.
I see I have this patience to wait it out, and the truth is no matter how dark I feel I would never take my own life, because when the darkness is over, then what a blessing is the feeblest ray of light!
— Valerie Martin, Mary Reilly
Mave believed that not being able to see your life clearly, to scrutinize it intelligently, meant that probably you were at the dead center of it, and that couldn't possibly be a bad thing.
— Lorrie Moore, Like Life
‎Most of the times, we feel more enjoyment from just recalling good memories of the past rather from those moments we lived,not because we did not have a good time but because realization has come late.
— Dionisis Agelakis
Spending all your energy on one opinion is like confining yourself to living in a box, and most people in a box aren't living.
— Thurman P. Banks Jr., Beyond John Dann
To travel beyond our world is to change this present one forever.
— Steven J. Carroll, A Prince of Earth
Human beings are not made to take shortcuts,... You're to live your life, moment by moment. Your life isn't here to entertain you - it's to be lived.
— David Rotenberg, The Placebo Effect
Dig anywhere in the earth and you will find a treasure, only you must dig with the faith of a peasant.
— Kahlil Gibran
My life is an open book; at least this photo album".~R. Alan Woods [2013]
— R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries
Life is so much richer, so very much more meaningful, if you plant yourself in a place that will nourish you.
— Ann Shayne, Bowling Avenue
life ain't fair. It's always slightly one sided
— Sunny
Erlendur didn’t believe in premonitions, visions or dreams, nor reincarnation or karma, he didn’t believe in God although he’d often read the Bible, nor in eternal life or that his conduct in this world would affect whether he went to heaven or hell. He felt that life itself offered a mixture of the two.Then sometimes he experienced this incomprehensible and supernatural de´ja` -vu, experienced time and place as if he’d seen it all before, as if he stepped outside himself, became an onlooker to his own life. There was no way he could explain what it was thathappened or why his mind played tricks on him like this.
— Arnaldur Indriðason, Jar City
Life doesn’t just happen to you. You react to it, and you are not forced to react the way you do. Your heart determines your reactions.
— Justin S. Holcomb
Always have a passion in your life.
— Mithilesh Tiwari
What's the rush? Recognise that with the time at our disposal, there is only a limited number of good books you can read, a few really good movies worth seeing, and a finite number of hours, days, years to enjoy them!
— Ken Puddicombe
There are no accusations with writing, no judgment, no shame, only freedom.
— Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden
There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
— Jojo Moyes, The Girl You Left Behind
We will cry and bleed and lust and love, and we will cure death. We will be the cure. Because we want it.
— Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.
— Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells
Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without knowing it. You can sincerely believe there is no God and live as though there is. You can sincerely believe there is a God and live as though there isn't.
— Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith
The path of your life can change in an instant.
— Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory
When the things you love exist only inside your memory they cannot be destroyed or taken from you.
— Marina Tavares Dias, Porto Desaparecido
...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?
— Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
I honestly wish I could believe that things will end perfectly with one big bright happy ending. But these last few days have taught me that life isn't made up of shiny moments. Life is hard; it's gritty. One day you are filled with joy and the next, you are crawling through the muddy trenches with no inkling of when you might be able to climb your way back up again. ~Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE)
— Rebecca Gober, Exposing ELE
Don't be afraid to let your past and present come together to create something new
— Michelle D. Argyle, Pieces
Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave. Maybe that's what I'm trying to do here, clear a space in all the debris, through all the anxieties and worries, where I can just exist, easily and simply, entire, for as long as I have left.
— Helen Humphreys, Wild Dogs
Until you have experienced raccoons mating underneath your bedroom at three in the morning, you have missed one of life's sensational moments.
— Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
If you treat an animal right, they don't run away. They're not like us. They run away from people they don't trust; most times we run away from ourselves.
— Glenn Beck, The Christmas Sweater
Some people may like you, and some people may not, keep living your life dreams, you will succeed!
— Nitra Gipson, The Real Verdict: My Quest for the Freedom I Never Had
Every morning is a reason to begin living again… in case if you have had a good sleep. If not, then begin living again, anyway, and take care of yourself!
— Lara Biyuts
Keep in mind too, our failures serve to teach us, and usually teach us more than our successes do. What we may perceive as a failure is also an opportunity for someone else to rise to the occasion and perform a mitzvah, or mitzvot. Do not begrudge someone their joyous performance of mitzvot. Sometimes, perhaps even more often then you may think, what we consider our failures were blessings in disguise for ourselves, or others, or everyone. Abraham did not change the world just because he himself changed, and followed his own destiny. He changed the world through his giving others opportunities to rise to their own greatness.
— Laura Weakley, What The Torah Teaches Us About Life / Through The Themes Of The Weekly Torah Portions
So if the ties that bind ever do come looseTie them in a knot like a hangman's nooseCause I'll go to heaven or I'll go to hellBefore I'll see you with someone else.
— The Band Perry
How far does life take us? I don't see anything at the end.
— Lisa Yaj
Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death.
— Sarah Strohmeyer, The Sleeping Beauty Proposal
If love is like driving a car, then I must be the worst driver in the world. I missed all the signs and ended up lost.
— Brian MacLearn
Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.
— Ellen Hopkins, Perfect
Life should be great rather than long.
— B.R. Ambedkar
Some of us are crèmes brûlées, unfortunately in the presence of those who would rather have corn dogs. We can try to degenerate into corn dogs to make them happy, or we can just accept the fact that we were made for Paris!
— C. JoyBell C.
There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the soul. No one of these is better or holier than the other; all are alike desirable, and no one of the three—body, mind, or soul—can live fully if either of the others is cut short of full life and expression.
— Wallace D. Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich
You're only as sick as your secrets.
— Rick Warren
This was the first time I thought of S— that day. Her music was beautiful, her voice was beautiful, her body was beautiful. Even the dirty little pads of her feet were beautiful. I cursed myself then. For once, heaven had sent me Beauty in its most perfected form and I abandoned it. She might not have been a girl after all but an angel: a force to guide me on this hazardous path of life I hurry down. How can life be hazardous if it can only end in death?
— Roman Payne
I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell. That was before I discovered the virtues of scissors, the virtues of matches.
— Margaret Atwood, The Tent
Maintain a receptive attitude!
— Tae Yun Kim, The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within
I have at least the whole of my life to answer a question: Who am I? And who is the other? A gust of wind at dawn? A motionless landscape? A trembling leaf? A coil of white smoke above a mountain? I write all these words and I hear the wind, not outside, but inside my head. A strong wind, it rattles the shutters through which I enter the dream.
— Tahar ben Jelloun, The Sand Child
...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Growing old is to be set free. It is a slow and long-simmering process that extracts you from what you are really made of. But it requires acceptance. You cannot put a flailing chicken in a boiling pot. You must accept the heat and the pain with serenity so that the full flavors of your life maybe released.
— Samantha Sotto
I’ll try just putting one foot in front of the other, and walk a step at a time without rushing. So I can burn the path into my memory while I can still see it. So that when all this is over, I can find my way back. Because I intend to come back. Hopefully with all of us together.
— Yukako Kabei, Kieli, Volume 7: As the Deep Ravine's Wind Howls
So you're giving up? That's it? Okay, okay. We'll leave you alone, Quasimodo. We just thought, maybe you're made up of something much stronger.
— Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
There is a little word that we can say to others now. "Thank You Very Much".
— Marya Sy
And the uniqueness of every momentseeks the path from pain to a pearl.
— Lina Kostenko
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent.
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
The pristine virtue is nothing but absolute absurdity, utter obscurity and sheer imbecility.
— Chandrashekar, Paradise of Fantasies
My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life always lay somewhere in the offing.
— Richard Ford, Canada
there is no understanding between me and this worldthey don't understand me and i don't care them.
— Adnan Khan
Living your life on your terms, means No excuses and only results.
— LadyTiara
There would be a lot fewer of us screwing up the game of life so brilliantly, if there was always a right answer instead of just a best--or even a less bad--answer.
— Claire Cross, Double Trouble
Live for the present, as the past has gone and the future as yet to arrive.
— LadyTiara
Living is the right to exercise Freedom any time without any guilt or whatsoever. Deathis living without Freedom. Resurrection is living for the Dead. Eternity is victory overdeath and not many will taste of it." - Freddy Schofeild Mahhumane
— Freddy Sipho Mahhumane
I believe bending to the will or beliefs of one person and not being an individual will eventually lead to the perpetual destruction of society today as we know it!
— Paul Lee
We are as connected to each other, as time is to the clock.
— Zephyr A. McIntyre
In order for us to begin something we have to start.
— Zulima James
It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie ofmy life must be really low-budget.
— Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
Once you pass a certain age, life becomes noting more than a process of continual loss. Things that are important to your life begin to slip out of your grasp, one after another, like a comb losing teeth. And the only things that come to take their place are worthless imitations. Your physical strength, your hopes, your dreams, your ideals, your convictions, all meaning, or, then again, the people you love: one by one, they fade away. Some announce their departure before they leave, while others just disappear all of a sudden without warning one day. And once you lose them you can never get them back. Your search for replacement never goes well. It’s all very painful- as painful as actually being cut with a knife.
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.
— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I see it another way: Her mind is being overwhelmed by two processes that must simultaneously proceed at full steam. One is to deal with and live in the present world. The other is to re-experience and mourn something that happened long ago. It is as though her lightness pulls her toward heaven, but the extra gravity around her keeps her earthbound.
— Steve Martin, The Pleasure of My Company
Most days I juggle everything quite well, on the other days there's always red wine.
— Rachael Bermingham
Life is real, not ideal.
— Heather Muzik
Life is to be experienced in totality. Try not to blame others like spouse, parents, friends, fellow beings or situations for any suffering. .. Never allow your vibe to go to a lower level. This way you will attract more and more positive circumstances in your life.
— Sakshi Chetana, Laughing Buddha
I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.
— Hedy Lamarr
Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still.
— Kristin Hannah, Angel Falls
The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.
— Boris Pasternak
I do believe that some humans have more amazing lives than others–above all, those who don’t sit down in a chair like mere spectators letting their lives happen in front of them, but they take risks as heroes do, experiencing, living, becoming the main character—but no matter what, we all have at least one story to tell.
— Merce Cardus, I say Who, What, and Where!
Hold love like a butterfly, with gentle preservation. Hold life like the reigns of a wild stallion, with fierce assertion. Encompass that, and you find the nectar of the immortal spirit.
— Kellie Elmore
I can't really tell how old I am, only that I'm too young to wonder if I asked the right questions in the past, and too old to wish the future will bring me all the answers.
— Gabriel Bá
It couldn't be an all-bad world, could it, not with birds who warble and call? Maybe that was the secret - to find the few things that made life just a fraction better, and to focus on those. Bird warbles. Peach fuzz. Puppies barking as if they're full grown dogs. Nothing great, certainly nothing to justify the rest of it, but enough to keep you going.
— Shalom Auslander, Hope: A Tragedy
If you're born with in the wild you run with the wild
— Cristian L. Martinez
if you don't have any weird moments, you're weird
— bertie gilbert
...once you've crawled into what's commonly thought of as the sordid underbelly of life, you realize it's all just different versions of normal.
— Josh Kilmer-Purcell, I Am Not Myself These Days
It feels good to know that if I died tomorrow I would have absolutely no regrets about things I wanted to do in life but did not try.
— Karen E. Quinones Miller
I wonder: instead of retreating and hiding, instead of pining for the way it was, what if I accept the way it is? This strikes me as both the most obvious thing in the world and the most profound.
— Ann Kidd Taylor, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story
I know that every atom of life in all this universe is bound up together. I know that pebble cannot be thrown into the ocean without distrubing every drop of water in the sea. I know that every life is inextricably mixed and woven with every other life. I know that every influence, conscious and unconscious, acts and reacts on every living organism, and that no one can fix the blame.I know that all life is a series of infinite chances, which sometimes result one way and sometimes another. I have not the infinite wisdom that can fathom it, neither has any other human brain. But I do know that in back of it is a power that made it, that power alone can tell, and if there is no power, then it is an infinite chance which man cannot solve.
— Marianne Wiggins, Evidence of Things Unseen
People don’t always value life, even their own, as much as they should.
— Alex Potvin, Half-Pipe to Hell
It is the transience of life which proves its inestimable worth.
— D.B. Harrop
God has make life simple for us but the choices we do at the end of each day, are the ones that make our lives complicated.
— Nthabiseng Motjamela
Years ago there was an old man I knew that told me he didn't trust me, because people with beards were hiding from something. I told him, "That's true, I'm hiding from the barber!!
— Neil Leckman
The value of a life is but your consciousness of its importance.
— Westley Tusa
Life is a game of common sense. You can know all the data that the encyclopedia holds, but if you can't apply it to social situations and day to day events, you're on the same rank as someone with no data at all.
— Zack W. Van
That was the river, this is the sea.
— Mike Scott
How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!
— Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
— E.B. White, One Man's Meat
What a more beautiful world this would be if we didn't wait til people were dead before we honored their spirit.
— Kellie Elmore
He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a placeto be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again toleave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears.Very much on the verge of tears.And very frightened.
— Mary Balogh, Thief of Dreams
Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form.p 259
— Rachel Naomi Remen, My Grandfather's Blessings : Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging
We sat in silence for a while. I gazed through the window at the night sky, wondering idly at all that space, all that blackness, all that nothing, and as I sat there looking up at the emptiness I began thinking about the creek, the hills, the woods, the water... how everything goes around and around and never really changes. How life recycles everything it uses. How the end product of one process becomes the starting point of another, how each generation of living things depends on the chemicals released by the generations that have proceeded it... I don't know why I was thinking about it. It just seemed to occur to me.
— Kevin Brooks, Lucas
That’s all there is to life, you know. Fun things, we just need to remember to enjoy them or we waste it all.
— Kaza Kingsley, The Three Furies
No, I stay for myself. Everything I need, everything I want, is here. I know it's not enough for most people, but it is for me. Every time I leave, even for an afternoon or an overnight trip to Seattle, I can't wait to get back. This is home. And I guess I'm a person who needs a home, a place to plant seeds and watch them grow.
— Barbara Freethy
True writers know that writing is not something they feel required to do,or to make a living they must do, it is quite frankly like breathing. Somecan breathe often and fluently, some short breaths, some a long exhaleand for many of us it is the patient steady breathing surrounding life.
— Milissa R. Bailey
It takes life to live life
— Jonathan Safran Foer
... he preferred being stimulated to being bored.
— Ruth Harris
Man lives his whole life trying to figure out the secrets of life only to realize in the end life was the secret.
— Terry Blakeman
Don't try to fix the past,try to build the future.
— christos Stavrou
People says you are not going to take anything with you at the end but people, mind that you are going to leave a lot behind you.So be precise for your deeds n trail you left. :)
— Nikunj shukla
Poppy said. “Because I was always telling him, ‘Look,’ I said. ‘Face it,’ I said. ‘There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you’ve got,’ I said.
— Ann Tyler
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
— Benjamin Franklin
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
— Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
— Richard Feynman
Learning never exhausts the mind.
— Leonardo da Vinci
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Learning is not child's play
—  we cannot learn without pain.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
— Doris Lessing
People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.
— Shannon L. Alder
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world.--Terri Mitchell
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Phantom in the Night
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat's Cradle
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
— B.B. King
If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
— C.S. Lewis
People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.
— Stephen King, Carrie
Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.
— Tony Schwartz
There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
— Will Rogers
In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
— Eric Hoffer
All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I'm in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I'm a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning.
— Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts
They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it
— Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.
— Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault.""You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.
— Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. It doesn't take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Everything I know, I learned from dogs.
— Nora Roberts, The Search
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
— James Joyce, Ulysses
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
— Oscar Wilde
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.
— Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
— Charles Caleb Colton
We learn to do by doing.
— Spencer W. Kimball
We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.
— Frank Herbert
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
— Hippocrates
Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.
— Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife
We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.
— Frank Clark
I don't want to give advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
— Fiona Apple
We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
— Henry David Thoreau
I'm starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.
— Confucius
I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.
— Elisabeth Elliot, Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
— Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
— Richard Feynman
What you keep before your eyes will affect you.
— Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
Our parents can show us a lot of things: they can show us how we are to be and what things we ought to strive for, or they can show us how not to be and what things we ought to stray from, then you may have the kind of parents that show you all the things about you that you want to get rid of and you realize those traits aren't yours at all but are merely your parents' marks that have rubbed off onto you.
— C. JoyBell C.
He who laughs most, learns best
— John Cleese
With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
— Pablo Picasso
An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
I learn to trust someone I love..I learn to deal with heartbreak..I learn to forgive him who hurts.I never stop learning in this life.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside of you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them. It's hollow.
— E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
My words itch at your ears till you understand them
— Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.
— Mary Balogh, Seducing an Angel
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
— Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
Will raised both eyebrows. 'Well, you learn a new thing everyday,' he said reflectively.'In your case, that's no exaggeration,' Halt said, completely straight-faced.
— John Flanagan, The Emperor of Nihon-Ja
I said I *liked* being half-educated
—  you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.
The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.
— Henry Jenkins
Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
— George Bernard Shaw
For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.
— Benjamin Franklin
We can't begin to learn until we admit how much we don't know.
— Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You
I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
— Lou Holtz
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
— Samuel Butler
The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.
— Roger Bacon, The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon - Volume 1
Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.
— Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style
Nina, you taught me to be something better. They could be taught, too.
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village - the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges.
— Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything.
— Mercedes Lackey, Owlknight
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
— Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
Learning to cover a mistake is as important as getting everything right.
— Suzanne Harper, The Juliet Club
I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.
— Homer Hickam, Rocket Boys
The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.
— Albert Einstein
Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it's harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we'd taken the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd said yes.
— Danny Wallace, Yes Man
Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.
— Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.
— Benjamin Franklin
Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.
— Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet the unknown and open your mind. - Nakajima (Gin no Saji)
— Hiromu Arakawa
The best way to learn is to do
—  the worst way to teach is to talk.
Knowing comes from learning, finding from seeking.
— Vaddey Ratner
Do question, even the basics!You will be a fool for once!If you don't, you will be, for a lifetime..
— Himmilicious
Lines are very difficult to learn.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.
— Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours.
— Marcel Proust
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
— Idries Shah, The Sufis
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
— W. Edwards Deming
the fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching.
— Richard DuFour
In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available.
— Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent & Neither Here Nor There
We learn to do something by doing it.There is no other way.
— John Holt
There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
I never learn anything from listening to myself.
— Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior
What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning...
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
At a certain level of learning and understanding,right or wrong ain't the issue, but different interest.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together.
— Francis Bacon, The Advancement Of Learning
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
— Bill Vaughan
My new favorite quote is, "Feed kids Cokes and french fries and you get an obesity crisis. Feed them mental junk food and you get non-readers and poor thinkers.
— Joy Hakim
It is important that you never place limitations on learning, personal growth, traveling, reading and making a positive difference in your life and others.
— Tasha Hoggatt
Language is still separating us even though technology is bringing us closer together.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you just have to see and feel.
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
— Alain de Botton
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it.... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
It's much easier, after all, to learn mathematics from someone who's made a few mistakes. It's impossible to learn it from someone who always gets it right.
— John C. Lennox
Why is it we must suffer the loss of something so dear before we realize what a treasure we had?Why must the sun be darkened before we feel how genuinely impossible it is to live without its warmth?Why within the misery of absence does love grow by such bounds?Why must life be this way?It is a strange existence where such suffering makes us far better people.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Eena, The Curse of Wanyaka Cave
Suffering is a part of real life lesson.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Life doesn’t happen to you, but for you. Lessons can be found in everyone’s story.
— Shannon L. Alder
Live to learn and you'll learn to live.from the book 'I Know Who You Are!
— Fatima Masood
As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.
— David Brooks
Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.
— Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics
We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.
— Lauren Myracle, Shine
had no need of a guide to learn ignorance
— Voltaire, Candide
The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in "to love" or "to learn" it does not have value.
— Anne Rice
Others could be victim for each lesson we learned.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.
— Orson Scott Card
Every mistake committed is a learning opportunity.
— Santosh Kalwar
Feedback is the breakfast of champions
— Kenneth H. Blanchard
I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for things that haven’t been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that “intellectual” is quite an exclusive word. I think it’s just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place.
— Pete Doherty
Mocking precedes learning the hard way.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
One thing I learned in here is the past is for learning. It's not for punishing others or yourself. It's not for dwelling on and getting angry about things you can't change. It's for learning how to do better in the rest of your life. And being grateful you get another chance to try and do better.
— Nicole Green, The Davis Years
GREAT SECRET Whenever I’m learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high.
— James Marcus Bach, Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion Can Lead to a Lifetime of Success
The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
The best thing for disturbances of the spirit is to learn. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love and lose your moneys to a monster, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then--to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the poor mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.
— T.H. White, The Sword in the Stone
Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
— Freya Stark
...learning always occurs in a context of taking action, and they value engagement and experience as the most effective strategies for deep learning.
— Richard DuFour
I'm starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy