Life Experience Quotes

"The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive." "As we grow older we lose illusons but gain experience and understanding." "We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire enough knowledge of the crudities of life" "So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it" "Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude." "The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife" "Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know." "The older I get the greater power I seem to have to help the world" "There is no such thing as a grown person who has forgotten their childhood" "I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irrevocably cynical." "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." "I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve." "Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been"