Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

I was shaped by my mistakes.

I don't want to repeat my mistakes.

As a young boy, I did a lot of foolish things. I made a lot of mistakes. And you live and learn.

Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

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.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Part of being young is making mistakes.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.

I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

I've learnt from my life experience.

I remember some of the biggest mistakes I have made really, really well.

To be honest, I've made a lot mistakes and I quite like making them because you learn from them.

You grow, you mature, you live, and you learn. You get a little wiser, and you learn better ways to handle things.

I have not always behaved well. I can admit that. I get things wrong, I learn.

You mature, you learn things.

I have learned a lot over the years. I have learned how best to use my attributes. That comes with a bit of knowledge and a bit of wisdom.

a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned

Understand that you don't know it all. You don't know anything yet. What you've been taught is great, but always go with common sense. And don't marry your first love.

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.