Burmese Proverb Quotes

You only recognize how good something is if you've been through the bad.

Sometimes, hindsight is 20/20. Sometimes it takes another situation to kind of make you look back at a different situation and really see how good you had it, you know?

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

It's just a fact of life that you don't realize what you've got until it's gone.

you dont know what you got till its gone

We never discover the value of things till we have lost them.

We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.

Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.

Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing.

It's like you're born with all these blessings, only you don't realize they're blessings until you lose them. And if you're thick-headed enough, like me, you don't even realize you've lost them, not until they come back to you.

I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.

I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything.

We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.

The top of a pinnacle now, firewood soon

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

I don't feel like a very nostalgic person. I think about the past much more clinically. When I look back and wonder, 'Why was I doing that? Was it a waste of time?' I don't beat myself up. Instead, I say, 'I'm so glad I did that, because now I really know what matters to me.'

When you don't do something anymore, all of a sudden everyone treasures it.

A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually gotten better since then.

'The Duffler' is a very familiar story, a story about someone having something and not appreciating it until it's gone, when it's too late.

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.