Life Lessons Quotes

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." "No matter how much you change, you still have to pay the price for the things you've done" "It is not enough to teach our young people to be successful. So are the mafia and drug cartels. We must teach our children that there is no shame in failing; there is only shame in failing to try" "If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty" "Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but it's everything in between that makes it all worth living" "The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends" "I tell my daughter every morning, 'Now, what are the two most important parts of you?' And she says, 'My head and my heart.'" "Arrange whatever pieces come your way" "You can never get to a place of truth without first walking through all the darkness" "Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes." "The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day." "Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials" "I think a lot of your 20s is trying to figure out who you really are." "Even if you think the grass is greener on the other side, you're going to have to mow that side too." "You have to take risks." "Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives?" "If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you." "Sometimes you gotta close a door to open a window" "Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her but once they are in hand he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game" "The more you experience in life, the more clear you get on what you really want"