SZA Quotes

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

Everything does not happen according to a plan, and you learn your lessons the hard way.

There's a lesson to be learned out of everything we go through in life.

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.

As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

God had to teach me a lot of things.

I'm really glad that I made a lot of mistakes, poorly chose my friends throughout my twenties, and didn't have a rocket trajectory that set me on one path without making any mistakes or having any setbacks. The older I get, the more I realize that it's all of these failed, horrible things from my past, and the stories that they generated, that are the things I will draw on for the rest of my life.

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

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

You try things on in life. You wear them for a while, and you see what's next.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

It's been a funny life for me. Sometimes I feel I haven't done a lot of living.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.

You're not fully you until life has booted you in the behind.

You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.

I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.