Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

A really big thing I've learned - and I think it's so liberating - is when you realize no one knows what they're doing.

It takes experience to get through your lows.

When I was younger, I used to think that my unconventional upbringing was a weakness, but over the past few years, I've learnt to see it as one of my greatest strengths.

I've learned from life experiences. If you go through certain things, you're able to pull from them.

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

I've always been confident with who I was, but my twenties were hard. I had to learn a lot of life lessons and I think my thirties will be a little easier because of all the wrong turns I took.

Why does life keep teaching me lessons I have no desire to learn?

A lot of people talk about life. Some love it. Some disparage it. And a few realize that life can be what you make it because they have learned from past experiences. Lessons learned from these experiences have often contributed greatly toward seeing the possibilities in what some people call "the game of life." When we've "been there" and "done that," we can have as good of an idea of what we don't want as what we do want. Experience is certainly an excellent teacher!

I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.