Quotes About Experience

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

If you're in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you're reading, it's fate all the way.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms.

For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.

There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experiencing.

School doesn't help with real life.

Stop trying to make the perfect move; trust your instincts more. You've been through quite a bit in the past years. I'm sure you're as good a student as you've always been." "I can't be a student for all my time!" "We are students for all our time if we're lucky enough to know it.

I think the most important thing for you to do in the meantime is live. It is a very involving job, which takes much concentration and practice.

The three foundations of learning: Seeing much; studying much; and suffering much.

I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.