“The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.”— Barry H. Gillespie, goodreads.com
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us…Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads- at least that’s where I imagine it- there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the st…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.”— Angelina Jolie, dailymail.co.uk
“Somethings in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy. Or, you could refuse to take the next step. You could refuse to take what you wanted most because you’re afraid some day you might lose it.”— Nora Roberts, amazon.com
“All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“I don’t understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.”— Craig Silvey, amazon.com
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.”— Bertrand Russell, amazon.com
“While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.”— Ivan Pavlov, en.wikiquote.org
“One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands before them. They seem to be as inexhaustible and unpredictable as real human beings.”— E. H. Gombrich, quotemadness.com
“People who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.”— Tom Bodett, goodreads.com
“That is the way to learn the most; when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes. I am sometimes so wrapped up in my work that I forget about the noon meal.”— Albert Einstein, amazon.com
“Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have time to make them all yourself.”— Alfred Sheinwold, amazon.com
“One does not think during creative work any more than one thinks when driving a car. But one has a background of years – learning, unlearning, success, failure, dreaming, thinking, experience, all this – then the moment of creation, the focusing of all into the moment.”— Edward Weston, amazon.com