“One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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Oprah Winfrey 143

American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, … 1954

David Russell (1953) Scottish classical guitarist

“Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

Variant: The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

“Crossing that bridge,
With lessons I've learned.
Playing with fire,
And not getting burned.”

Seal (musician) (1963) British singer-songwriter

"Prayer For The Dying"
Seal (1994)
Context: Crossing that bridge,
With lessons I've learned.
Playing with fire,
And not getting burned.
I may not know what you're going through.
But time is the space,
Between me and you.
Life carries on... it goes on.

“And then what?"
"I'll burn that bridge when I cross it.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bites

“Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges,
Into twenty villages,
Or one man
Crossing a single bridge into a village.”

Wallace Stevens book Harmonium

"Metaphors of a Magnifico"
Harmonium (1923)

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”

Friedrich Nietzsche Untimely Meditations

Niemand kann dir die Brücke bauen, auf der gerade du über den Fluß des Lebens schreiten mußt, niemand außer dir allein.
“Schopenhauer as educator,” § 3.1, R. Hollingdale, trans. (1983), p. 129
Untimely Meditations (1876)