“Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever has to be learned must be learned the hard way.”

“The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The
willingness to learn is a choice.”

“It is always the teacher who must learn the most … or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.”

“Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.”

“Some lessons you learned by the book. Others you learned from cold hard experience. The latter may not be the best way to learn, but it damn well stuck.”

“When I look at the number of things which a boy must now learn, or is encouraged to learn, and when I look at the questions in the examination papers, I am quite content that I was brought up in other days; and that if I did not learn much and was taught next to nothing, I have kept to old age the sense, whatever it may be, which came with me into the world.”

“Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.”

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

“We are all one, and if we don’t know it we will learn it the hard way.”

“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news”