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“You learn your limitations and then you try to work within them.”
“You learn your lines as well as you can and you go in there and go with whatever is thrown at you. Sometimes you don't know whether or not they're going to break the scene up, so you don't have to do it all at one time.”
“You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.”
“You learn, of course, when you're working with something good, but you also can learn when you're working with things that are not good. You can see the reasons they're not good. I would sometimes suggest what could be done, but essentially say "It isn't worth the bother." So I learned from that process.”
“You learn, right, a lot of people's problems - why they get upset, why they get down, why they turn to drink - is because they can't say one word and it's N-O, no.”
“You learned a lot by playing RPGs, although not all of it was useful, or real for that matter – unless you really believed that wolves normally carry seven gold pieces, a flawed garnet, a scroll of ice storm, and a lock pick somewhere about their person.”
Source: The Scriptlings
“you learned from a Korean poet in Seoul:
that one does not bury the mother's body
in the ground but in the chest, or--like you--
you carry her corpse on your back.”
Source: Monument: Poems New and Selected
“You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.”
“You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies.”
Source: Steppenwolf
“You learned something right? Make it part of your life right away! You heard something clever? Internalize it instantly! You heard something beautiful? Add it to your life philosophy at once!”
“You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever.”
“You learned that it was easy frighteningly easy to get lost in someone else's life accommodating him and stop being yourself. You learned to be wary about falling in love. And you learned that someone who loved you could stop loving you for some dark reason and even though that was bruising you were more resilient than you knew. Eventually you would get over it more or less.”
“You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.”
Source: A companion to Wittgenstein's
“You learned the dry-mouthed, fear-purged, purging ecstasy of battle and you fought that summer and that fall for all the poor in the world, against all tyranny, for all the things you believed and for the new world you had been educated into.”
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls
“You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.”
“You learned this,” Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, “from a book.”
“Er…yes?”
He looked back at the picture. “I need to read more.”
Source: The Way of Kings
“You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.”
Source: Pet Sematary
“You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.”
“You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.”
“You leave a country, they stop playing you on the radio.”
“You leave a rumor long enough, give it the right soil, and it'll grow into a fact . . .”
Source: Broken Sky: #04
“You leave behind your fine poems.
You leave behind your beautiful flowers. And the earth that was only leant to you. You ascend into the Light, O Quechomitl, you leave behind the flowers and the singing and the earth. Safe journey, O friend.”
Source: Servant of the Underworld
“You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.”
“You leave home, you move on and you do the best you can. I got lost in this whole world and forgot who I am.”
“You leave me much against my will.”
Source: A Few Figs from Thistles
“You leave me tied up like a dog? Then you had better remember that this bitch bites!”
Source: Kiss of a Demon King
“You leave nothing to assumption," Dory Maud says. "You swallow her with your eyes. I'm surprised there's any of her left for the rest of us to see.”
Source: The Scorpio Races
“You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.”
Source: Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition
“You leave out God, and you substitute the devil.”
Source: Winston S. Churchill: Companion Vol. V, Part Three, the Coming of War 1936-1939
“You leave part of yourself on every stage you're on. How could you not live in the air somehow?”
“You leave the heaviness of the ground behind, because here there is only the sky and then, if we could keep flying long enough, the stars.”
Source: The Hundred Names of Darkness
“You leave the phone on beside you as you fall asleep. I sit in my bed and listen to your breathing, until I know you are safe, until I know you no longer need me for the night.”
“You leave the place you’re from, you have to. But you also need to have it stay in you for a long time. It is your center.”
Source: Sam & Ilsa's Last Hurrah
“You leave white people alone in constant isolation for 2,000 years, and you know what their musical contribution will be? Riverdance!”
“You left , and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness.”
“You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?”
Source: The Pocket Rumi
“you left
and i wanted you still
yet i deserved someone
who was willing to stay”
Source: The Sun and Her Flowers
“You left and took the light with you—
I am lost.
I don't know how to come back.”
Source: Dystopia and Derelict Dreams: Poems
“You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.”
“You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in absence. Both mourn, the angels, the prophets, and this sadness I feel has taken from me the taste of language, so that I cannot say the flavor of my being apart.”
“You left home with a beautiful umbrella, an umbrella with golden handle. Heat and rain falling from the sky (bad experiences in life) forced you to open it. Since then, you are tightly holding it, searching for the path to reach back home. Open your fist. The map is printed on the golden handle of your umbrella.”
“You left like Prometheus in reverse, stealing the fire and leaving me chained to silence.”
Source: Her Fire Touched the Sky: Poems of Trauma, Survival, Healing, and the Quiet Rebuilding of a Soul
“You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“You left me for a dream you had to follow, but I thought goodbye wouldn't last that long.”
“You left me, sweet, two legacies,
A legacy of love
A Heavenly Father would content,
Had He the offer of;
You left me boundaries of pain
Capacious as the sea,
Between eternity and time,
Your consciousness and me.”
“You left me the kind of broken that fears fixing.”
“You left me with no choice other than to make my own decision”
“You left me yet you did not leave
I broke down yet I did not break.”
“You left me, ripped out my heart, and then came back acting like a robot, and you know what? We made it through. You and I, good or bad, belong together. We make each other whole.”
Source: The Forever of Ella and Micha
“You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls