Quotes About Experience

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.

You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.

How do you know what a rock star feels like, Ada May? Have you ever been a rock star? I don't think so,' Beth Ann said. 'I was just guessing.' 'Well, not me. I'm not saying I feel like something when I don't have any idea what that feels like and neither do you.

Think of it as a life experience," I mumbled. "Isn't your dad always saying we need more of that?" "I don't think prancing around PJ Jamieson's pool in our underwear is exactly what he had in mind.

The changes we swear to fight off with savage claws in our twenties end up creeping over us like a rising tide in our thirties.

Child, I have been around a lot of years, and if you don't laugh, you cry.

He realized that this tragedy was meant to be and knew intrinsically that from it there were life lessons to be learned by either her or those involved. Such was the way of life for humans.

Human souls come here to learn from the experiences of living life. The good, the bad, and the ugly things they couldn't possibly learn by experience in a perfect heaven. Only by coming to earth can they truly gain knowledge of anything negative.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

One should learn the lessons of history. The mistakes of the past need only be made once. Unless there are no other choices. ~ Bayaz

Pain is the best schoolmaster, as you will soon discover.

Defeats do men far more good than victories.

It still seems a strange decision, though, for the tortured to turn torturer." "On the contrary, nothing could be more natural. In my experience, people do as they are done to. You were sold by your father and bought by your husband, and yet you choose to buy and sell.

coming to Hollyhill to visit my

She understood that grief is not neat and orderly; it does not follow any rules. Time does not heal it. Rather time insists on passing and as it does, grief changes but does not go away.

It mattered most to me then because of where I was in my life. So in a way, there isn't just one book that matters most, there might be several, or even a dozen.

When you read a book, and who you are when you read it, makes it matter or not.

Time doesn't heal, I had learned, it just keeps moving. And it takes us with it.

The idea of the book that matters most," Kiki said. "Because i think it's like impossible to pick such a book. When you read a book, and who you are when you read it, makes it matter or not. Like if you're unhappy and you read, I don't know, On the Road or The Three Musketeers, and that book changes how you fell or how you think, then it matters the most. At that time.

Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

One can't step into the river twice

No hocus-pocus here. Just lots of living; it lends you some wisdom. Which I'm guessing is a trade-off for lost youth.