“Once you learn what life is about, there is no way to erase that knowledge. If you try to do something else with your life, you will always sense that you are missing something”

“Life is about growth and change. When you are no longer doing that — that is your whisper; that is your whisper that you are supposed to do something else.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.”

Doris Lessing book The Four-Gated City

“You try your damnedest, but something always goes wrong. That’s life. If you’re smart, you plan for it.”

Glen Cook book Shadows Linger

“I would then say that there are two kinds of feeling. The first is to feel in the sense of concentrating your emotions on something immediately available for your understanding: you make your understanding out of the emotions you have about it. The second is to feel in the sense of being affected without trying to understand: something is felt, you do not know what, and it is more important to feel it than to try to understand it, since once you try to understand it you no longer feel it.”

Laura Riding Jackson (1901–1991) poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer

“I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.”

Jim Butcher Dead Beat

“You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.”

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship

“I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself.
- Troy”

August Wilson Fences

“There is something you can do that no one else can do just like you so love your life!”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.”

Vernon Howard (1918–1992) American writer