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Topic·Life lessons✕clear

Autobiography and memoir

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden · 1854

★ 7.1

It's what we learn after we think we know it all that counts.

Frank McKinney Hubbard

1913

★ 6.9

Play

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Iphigenia in Tauris · 1787

★ 6.3

Play · Comedy (play)

Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head. And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

William Shakespeare

As You Like It · 1616

★ 5.5

Novel

We have two lives...The life we learn with and the life we live with after that.

Bernard Malamud

The Natural · 1952

★ 5.1

Psychological literature

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Karen Horney

Our Inner Conflicts · 1945

★ 4.4

Novel

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Willa Cather

The Song of the Lark · 1915

★ 3.7

Poem

We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.

John Pomfret

Reason · 1700

★ 3.6

Novel · Science fiction

A learning experience is one of those things that says, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”

Douglas Adams

The Salmon of Doubt · 2001

★ 3.6

Play · History (play)

Let me embrace the sour adversaries, For wise men say it is the wisest course.

William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part 3 · 1595

★ 2.0

Film · Sports (film) · Sports

You know, I believe we have two lives. The life we learn with and the life we live with after that.

Iris Gaines

The Natural · 1984

★ 2.0

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