#learnin

People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#bonding #companionship #dogs #experience #friendship

Men of polite learning and a liberal education. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#learning #liberal #liberal education #men #polite

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in "to love" or "to learn" it does not have value. ↗

— Anne Rice

#learning #life #love #beauty

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill. ↗

— Tony Buzan

#important #learn #learning #life #most

I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#biggest #education #experiences #first #got

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#like #merely #out #pocket #private

I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer. ↗

— Georgina Chapman

#any #being #context #costume #designer

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country. ↗

— James Cronin

#another #assimilating #country #culture #enjoyed

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#caring #effort #experience #garden #gardener

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. ↗

— George Eliot

#alphabet #birch #bit #end #father