If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, 'Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.'
Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
You live and learn. Then you die and forget it all.
Life is the only real teacher. It offers many experiences....But the lessons of experience are hidden.
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
Each others' lives are our best textbooks.
Life is like a great teacher..... she will repeat the lesson until you learn.
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
You gotta laugh and love and take all life has to give. You gotta live and learn so you can learn to live.
Everybody has their own approach. I don't adhere to any one philosophy. I learn a lot from life and people - watching and other people watching.
The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life.
You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.
He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.
Life will teach you, but you have to live long enough to get those lessons.
