It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise

Quote by Sara Teasdale

Topics: Experience Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not...

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not...

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting...

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting...

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy

When I can look Life in the eyes, Grown calm and very coldly wise, Life...

When I can look Life in the eyes, Grown calm and very coldly wise, Life...

I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that...

I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that...

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a...

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a...

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that...

I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that...

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life...

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life...

There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done...inexorably, unalterably done.

There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done...inexorably, unalterably done.

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that...

Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that...

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that...

There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that...

Wisdom never lies

Wisdom never lies

In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the...

In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the...