I Have Learned Quotes - Page 26

• Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

  Hugh Prather

  Life, Change, Learning

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.41, Bantam

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• I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Anger, Years, Trying

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.66, ShandonPress

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• I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.

  Philip Yancey

  Inspirational, Mean, Reverse

  "Finding God in Unexpected Places". Book by Philip Yancey, 1995.

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• In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.

  Julia Cameron

  Inspirational, Life, Pain

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.82, Souvenir Press

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• In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities.

  Helen Keller

  Sweet, Book, Here I Am

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding. I am still learning.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Journey, Cherish Every Moment

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

  Julia Cameron

  Inspirational, Empowerment, Acting

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.93, Souvenir Press

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• I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

  Brenda Ueland

  Creativity, Long, Six

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

  Maya Angelou

  Pain, Heart, People

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 06, 2013

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  Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

  Andy Rooney

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there ~ Moondance k'Treva (Magic's Pawn)

  Mercedes Lackey

  Thinking, Hands, Magic

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• Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Science, Two Sides, Coins

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.263, Macmillan

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• Learn to pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees. Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil. And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with ‘Thy will be done’ (Matthew 6:10; see also Luke 11:2; 3 Nephi 13:10).

  Boyd K. Packer

  Prayer, Heart, Keys

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• No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  FaceBook post by Faraaz Kazi from Sep 20, 2012

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• All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness.

  Brennan Manning

  Errors, Trial And Error, Trials

  Brennan Manning (2009). “The Furious Longing of God”, p.39, David C Cook

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• I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

  John Irving

  Eye, Past, Views

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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• the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

  Andy Rooney

  Education, Elderly, Feet

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• But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.

  Emily Giffin

  Timetables

  Emily Giffin (2015). “Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue”, p.10, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Moving, Order

  Gary Shapiro, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1989). “Nietzschean narratives”, Indiana Univ Pr

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• because I have learned the hard way how deadly these beauties can be.

  Suzanne Collins

  Way, Hard, Mockingjay

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.355, Scholastic Inc.

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• I have learned the power of surviving.

  Philippa Gregory

  Surviving

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Boleyn Inheritance”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Over the years I have learned that when I need answers to deal with crises, people, and issues, I must go to God. God will help us in everything we do if we stay in tune and if we will call on him. We must each plan our future with him in our homes, our families, and our relationships with others. If we make him our senior partner, our lives can be successful.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Senior, Home, Successful

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• I have learned that one should say "Peace!" to those who shout their hatred for one's being and presence or at one's passage.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Hatred, Should, Passages

  Tariq Ramadan (2009). “What I Believe”, p.111, Oxford University Press

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• You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up up them.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Love, I've Learned, I Care

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• Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.

  Patricia McCormick

  Fog, Trying, Remember

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