Quotes About Wisdom

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Every one of us comes into this life with lessons to learn and gifts to give.

I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.

What I have learned from life is to make the most of what you have got.

What prepares you for the true path of God? The experiences of life.

Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'

I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass.

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I'm also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.

Life can't always be good, and life can't always be bad. That just holds true. I've learned a lot from that statement, and I think about it, all the time.

Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition.

I do not regret one moment of my life.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.

In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.

History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to write good history.

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.