#life-experience

"Time ripens all things; no man is born wise."

"Life is still better than University. In school, your teacher is the fruit picker and you are the open fruit basket. Then you take those fruits and make cakes and pies. But life is going to give you the chance to go out there and pick those fruits yourself. Then you can eat them, or make them into something else; any which way, your own hands picked them!"

"[Poem: Slates of Grey]Sullen faces like slates of grey—What I’d seen on a walk today.Bodies rushing bodies boltingTime for life a disregarding.Money to make and to grow oldWhat about the hands to hold?Deadlines, projects, people to meetWhat about our own two feet.Sullen faces like slates of grey...What I’d see most anyday."

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

"Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow"

"I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living."

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

"Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope."

"The easiest way to be reborn is to live and feel life everyday"

"New Year - a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story ? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours."

"Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it."

"Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better."

"On the top of Cadair Idris,I felt how happy a man might bewith a little money and a sane intellect,and reflected with astonishment and pityon the madness of the multitude."

"Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make."

"How would your life be different if...You decided to give freely, love fully, and play feverously? Let today be the day...You free yourself from the conditioned rules that limit your happiness and dilute the beautiful life experience. Have fun. Give - Love - Play!"

"Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger."

"We are the sum total of the decisions we have made."

"One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things."

"Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain."

"If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquility and peace nature will serve you."