Lou Rawls Quotes

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

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.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Everything is an experience. You learn something different from everything you do.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

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

It took me a long time to grow up.

I'm open. All of my situations have made me who I am.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed.

I think anything that increases your understanding of the human condition... I think age and life, if you're lucky, makes you think deeper, and the other thing it makes you realize is that you never stop learning, and you never lose your fear of getting it wrong.

You are the best lessons you learn from life. I have grown up learning from my life.

You go through life and learn valuable lessons.

I have a formal education, but there's a whole lot you don't learn in school. And you only have so much time to figure it out. No matter how cerebral, celestial, how ethnic, there's a span of time here.

All my mistakes, all my accomplishments, the good things I've done, the bad I've done, and the mistakes I've learned from, the mistakes I've never done before - all of that made me into what I am now.

I think you learn every day. You can't buy experiences; all these experiences shape you.