"Ask an older person you respect to..." - Quote by H Jackson Brown Jr
Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.
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More on Learning
“Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.”
“However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh. Thus no generation has learned from another how to love, no generation can begin other than at the beginning.”
“To live is a constant process of relating, so come on out of that shell of isolation and conclusion, and relate DIRECTLY to what is being said. Bear in mind I seek neither your approval nor to influence you. So do not make up your mind as to "this is this" or "that is that." I will be more than satisfied if you begin to learn to investigate everything yourself from now on.”
More on Wisdom
“One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.”
“Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely.”
“I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing.... Thinking back on it all, it must have been the most difficult part of mothering she ever had to do: knowing the outcome, yet feeling she had no right to keep me from charting my own path. I thank her for all her virtues, but mostly for never once having said, "I told you so.”