Quotes About Life

Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

The young donÂ't know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book.

Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the thinking them from a cloister.

School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan.

Education is provide enlightenment for one's life.

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.

Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.

Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.

Each body is a lion of courage, something precious of the earth.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.

Is it just me, or does every woman in New York have a severe emotional problem?

We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.

The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.

I tend to be emotional when... I breathe.

Music is the emotional life of most people.

Older guys have too much emotional baggage. They've already lived their lives.

You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.