Life experience quotes

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

- Stephen King100

◆ Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost.

- Kellie Elmore99

◆ Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra99

◆ Before you can live a part of you has to die. You have to let go of what could have been, how you should have acted and what you wish you would have said differently. You have to accept that you can't change the past experiences, opinions of others at that moment in time or outcomes from their choices or yours. When you finally recognize that truth then you will understand the true meaning of forgiveness of yourself and others. From this point you will finally be free.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and voila, the rest of your life you're green.

- Tess Callahan99

◆ I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?

- Jennifer Egan99

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

- Thomas Carlyle99

◆ I am sure it is everyone's experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.

- W.H. Auden99

◆ Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow

- Larry Michael Dredla99

◆ Advice,' Do?a Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.

- Scott Lynch99

◆ Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.

- Bohdi Sanders99

◆ One thing you have to realize from now on is that it doesn't matter if this is a dream or not. Survival depends on what you do, not what you think.

- Rebecca McKinsey99

◆ Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything

- Sarah Addison Allen99

◆ I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

- Laurell K. Hamilton99

◆ Mum used to say we were the same soul split in two and walking around on four legs. It seems unnatural being born together and then dying apart.

- Melodie Ramone99