“Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it.”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: Bride Quartet Boxed Set
“Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it.”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: Bride Quartet Boxed Set
“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
Douglas Adams book Mostly Harmless
Source: Mostly Harmless
“You live and learn. Or you don't live long.”
Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love
Source: Time Enough for Love (1973)
“Until you live, learn how to live.”
Stephen R. Covey book First Things First
First Things First (1994), Disputed
“When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1972) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 5
“You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give. ”
Kirk Douglas (1916–2020) American stage and film actor
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Variant on aphorism "Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow" pre-dating Gandhi, variously attributed to Isidore of Seville (c. 560 – 636), in FPA Book of Quotations (1952) by Franklin Pierce Adams, to Edmund Rich (1175–1240) in American Journal of Education (1877), or to Alain de Lille in Samuel Smiles's Duty https://books.google.com/books?id=33UzAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA363&dq=live+die+tomorrow+learn+forever&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjd3s_2m57MAhWFMGMKHe-sAl8Q6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=live%20die%20tomorrow%20learn%20forever&f=false (1881). <br class="br">The 1995 book "The good boatman: a portrait of Gandhi," states that Gandhi subscribed "to the view that a man should live thinking he might die tomorrow but learn as if he would live forever." <br class="br">In his 2010 Boyer lecture Glyn Davis (Professor of Political Science and Vice-Chancellor of Melbourne University) attributes the quote to Desiderius Erasmus. "He [Erasmus] reworked Pliny to urge 'live as if you are to die tomorrow, study as if you were to live forever'. Many students obey the first clause - the best heed both." <br class="br">There is a similar quote by Johann Gottfried Herder: "Mensch, genieße dein Leben, als müssest morgen du weggehn; Schone dein Leben, als ob ewig du weiletest hier." ["Man, enjoy your life as if you were to depart tomorrow; spare your life as if you were to linger here forever."] (Zerstreute Blätter, 1785). <br class="br">Disputed