But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind.

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort /to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires /and expires, too soon, too soon /before life itself.

Surround yourself with people who love life and learn.

I hope I remember everything," said Toni.
"You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But after you make the same mistake one, or two, or five times, you'll eventually get it. And then you'll make new mistakes.

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.