I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt and wish to pass on to others is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never in any case regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
Although the skills aren't hard to learn finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat is what makes a really good restaurant.
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands but let it go and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness you cannot appreciate happiness.
Everything has its wonders even darkness and silence and I learn whatever state I may be in therein to be content.
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.
When you sing with a group of people you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy the great social virtue.
Defense is a definite part of the game and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning if they be accompanied by a bad training are a much greater misfortune.
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you and were tender with you and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you and disputed passage with you?
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
He who learns but does not think is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Even though I didn't get a business degree I enjoyed learning about economics.
If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars he or she should learn something about fieldwork something about bibliography something about how to carry out library research and something about how to publish that research.
I think young writers should get other degrees first social sciences arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time watching hunger nakedness dizziness in the head weakness in the stomach and other inconveniences.
I learned law so well the day I graduated I sued the college won the case and got my tuition back.
St. Louis has a lot of weird food customs that you don't see other places - and a lot of great ethnic neighborhoods. There's a German neighborhood. A great old school Italian neighborhood with toasted ravioli which seems to be a St. Louis tradition. And they love provolone cheese in St. Louis.