I Quotes
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“I have learned that the harder you fall…the higher you bounce!”
“I have learned, that the person I have to ask for forgiveness from the most is: myself. You must love yourself. You have to forgive yourself, everyday, whenever you remember a shortcoming, a flaw, you have to tell yourself "That's just fine". You have to forgive yourself so much, until you don't even see those things anymore. Because that's what love is like.”
“I have learned that the place where I subsist is all places, and the space I occupy is all intervals.”
“I have learned that the point of life's walk is not where or how far I move my feet but how I am moved in my heart.”
Source: The Seven Paths: Changing One's Way of Walking in the World
“I have learned that the point of life's walk is not where or how far I move my feet but how I am moved in my heart. If I walk far but am angry toward others as I journey, I walk nowhere. If I conquer mountains but hold grudges against others as I climb, I conquer nothing. If I see much but regard others as enemies, I see no one.”
Source: The Seven Paths: Changing One's Way of Walking in the World
“I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism.”
“I have learned that the stuff that causes me anxiety, the stuff I instinctively veer away from, is usually a road map to where my own creative growth can be found. So I consciously head toward the places that make me uncomfortable.”
“I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.”
“I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving.”
Source: The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart
“I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving. It's not about speed. And gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped. you might find that one particular direction proves difficult, but there are many directions on a compass. Infinite, in fact. As long as you keep searching, you'll find your winning way.”
Source: The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart
“I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.”
“I have learned that there's no way to open yourself to the experience of God while retaining your cool, your sense of ironic detachment.”
Source: A Letter to My Congregation: An Evangelical Pastor's Path to Embracing People Who Are Gay, Lesbian and Transgender in the Company of Jesus
“I have learned that those who engage in family history research and then perform the temple ordinance work for those whose names they have found will know the additional joy of receiving both halves of the blessing.”
“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”
“I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.”
“I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.”
“I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.”
“I have learned that trust comes and goes and love comes before hate. Elise age 10.”
“I have learned that trying again is important and decisivness is good. I have learned that silence hurts. I have learned about starting over and releasing pride.”
“I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.”
Source: Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett
“I have learned that we all contain multitudes and hypocrisies and that change is slow moving. I've learned that reconciliation has to occur between the parts of ourselves that are fragmented and wounded.”
“I have learned that we may change the very nature of our thoughts, by changing the tone of voice we are thinking in! No one has ever paid attention to what tone of voice they are speaking in, during the time that their words are going on in their heads! People only pay attention to their tones of voice when their words are on their tongues! But it is the tone of voice we think in, that is responsible for creating the energy we emit. You may be screaming on the inside and even though you are calm on the outside, you are going to create the energy of your thoughts. If you want real change in your life, in your mind— really, just change the tone of voice that you think in!”
“I have learned that we may spend our time forging fiery darts, or we may spend our time crafting hyacinth garlands. Both are weapons. One puts us on the battle field, the other places us on the mountaintop. The choice is all our own.”
“I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.”
“I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen”
“I have learned that when sadness comes to visit me, all I can do is say “I see you.” I spend some time with it, get up, and say goodbye.
I don’t push it away, I own it.
And because I own it, I let it go.”
“I have learned that when you make big decisions, life says, 'Fuck you. This is what you actually have in store.”
“I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.”
Source: Watership Down: A Novel
“I have learned that you can be a high flyer at any given time, it all depends on your level of commitment and the imagination of the best version of yourself - you are a champion, compete against yourself.”
“I have learned that you can communicate on a very deep level with any living form. Thats why my gardens bloom and my animals are so healthy-because I communicate with them.”
“I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all the things that you want to buy and meet all the people that you want to meet and learn all the things that you desire to learn and if you do all these things but are not madly in love: you have still not begun to live.”
“I have learned that you can’t have good advertising without a good client, that you can’t keep a good client without good advertising, and no client will ever buy better advertising than he understands or has an appetite for.”
Source: Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett
“I have learned that you're not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it's just the fool that's looking backwards: a bitter heart turns the love we made to ashes.”
“I have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way”
“I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.”
“I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination”
“I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.”
“I have learned the lesson the hard way and I hope it serves as a lesson to lots of other young people. I would also like to apologise to all loyal Blue Peter viewers.”
“I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks.
All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.”
Source: Maslow on management
“I have learned the pace is not go go go.
The pace is up and down.
There is no race,
No finish line.
There is always something more for the human soul.”
“I have learned the power of surviving.”
Source: The Boleyn Inheritance
“I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.”
Source: Baruch: The Public Years
“I have learned there is a gift wrapped inside of every adversity and, if you have faith and hope, you can lose everything and still survive.”
“I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace without the distress of war?”
“I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but from away games or the sports pages, and hooliganism has given me both a taste for sociology and a degree of fieldwork experience. I have learned the value of investing time and emotion in things I cannot control, and of belonging to a community whose aspirations I share completely and uncritically.”
“I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.”
“I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.”
“I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me.”
“I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.”
Source: Themes and episodes
“I have learned to accept and appreciate beauty as it is, without always having to reason why.
As Ralph Waldo Emerson eloquently conveyed in his poem ‘The Rhodora’ (1834), ‘If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty has its own excuse for being.”
Source: In Search for Meaning