Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.
In raising children, life brings forth those things where you do what you should never have done and what I taught you never to do. And when my kids have done those things, I just kind of look at them and say, 'Now you know life.'
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.
People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're given.
The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.
Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.