The best Quotes by Tom Bodett

The best Quotes by Tom Bodett

Thomas Edward Bodett (born February 23, 1955) is an American author, voice actor, woodworker and radio personality, primarily as a host, correspondent and panelist for a number of shows that air on National Public Radio (NPR).

The difference between school and 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.
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Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.
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The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.
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Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder.
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Well you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him!
Dory in Finding Nemo
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Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
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If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?
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Love the life you live.
Live the life you love.
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Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss
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If you can't find something to live for, you best find something to die for.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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It's just that... I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.
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Simba: "Ouh. Jeez, what was that for?"
Rafiki: "It doesn't matter, it's in the past."
Simba: "Yeah, but it still hurts."
Rafiki: "Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it."
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Oh yes. The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
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I'm strong, because I've been weak.
I'm fearless, because I've been afraid.
I am wise, because I've been foolish.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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To regret one's own experience is to arrest one's own development.
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There's a benefit about losing: you get to learn from your mistakes.
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A mind that is stretched by new experiences, can never go back to its old dimensions.
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Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
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Never memorize what you can look up in books.
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I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
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Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
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Learning never exhausts the mind.
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The more that you read,
The more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
The more places you'll go.
Theodor Seuss Geisel - I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
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The message I stress: to make it stop study your lessons
Don't settle for less - even the genius asks questions
Be grateful for blessings
Don't ever change, keep your essence
2Pac - Me Against The World
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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
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He, who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He, who does not ask remains a fool forever.
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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago... but I admire the sadism.
Wednesday Addams in Wednesday - Season 1 Episode 1
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The merry laughter of little innocent children wending their way to school. Thirsty little minds rushing to the fountain of knowledge.
Honest John in Pinocchio
I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.
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School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
I was a smart kid, but I hated school.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein - Brief, 22. März 1944
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Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?
One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.
Joe Biden - März 2024
What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.
I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.
When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

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