Nina Hagen Quotes

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

I learned from my past.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

Life experiences can, at times, be quite humbling, but you learn from them. But I like the changes in my life and what kind of person they've made me into. I'm very open, not as judgmental as I was in my twenties, and a lot more compassionate.

I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

I learn from each experience, and I take it for what it is and gain what I can.

I have learned from my mistakes and become older.

Every experience, good or bad, you have to learn from.

I've learned my lessons, but I'm also still learning them.

Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.

I believe there is a lesson in everything that you do.

I think everything you do in life is a learning experience.

Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

I think in every lesson there's a blessing, and there's so many blessings from all the lessons I've had to go through in life.

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

I recommend anybody go to a bookstore, go down the self-help or new-age section, and just walk those aisles. See what book jumps out at you; there's a good chance it's a book you need in your life. That's basically how I find the books that I read.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don't like needful moments and therefore we resist them.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.