Poe Ballantine Quotes

All my life, since the time I was little, has been a long distraction. At least that is the way some people want to perceive it, but for me, it's given me a lot of strength.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

We're put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle.

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul.

Your life is a learning process - you can only become wiser from learning. Sometimes you might have to attract making a painful mistake to learn something important, but after the mistake you have far greater wisdom. Wisdom cannot be bought with money - it can only be acquired through living life. With wisdom comes strength, courage, knowing, and an ever-increasing peace.

I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

Why does life keep teaching me lessons I have no desire to learn?

I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn't change any of them.

In a funny way, when things went wrong in my life - and it is my fault that they went wrong, it is not anyone else's fault - and all the glittering outside things were taken away, I was left with the things of most value.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.

Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.