Quotes About Experience

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

The kid looked up, her bright blue eyes a little picture of health. So innocent and trusting, Rosie thought. The look we all had before life comes crashing in and sweeps it all away.

Sometimes, when we look back on a great day as a kid, I wonder was it really as perfect as that, or have I just made it that way in my head . . .

That was life, wasn't it? It didn't seem like you were falling.

I was beginning to understand why marriage "experts" like to say that if a couple gets through the first year of marriage they stand a good chance of making it. They all seem to agree that year one is the most difficult. (After thirteen years of marriage, I would tend to agree with them, except that they left out years two through twelve.)

He was a user of his own consciousness, but he did not have owner privileges. As a result, Paladin felt many things without knowing why.

That's when I decided the point of travel was not to observe history, but to change it.

were many reserve officers who had worked in civilian life

Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust

some people need a hard lesson in order to learn and grow—and some people are the hard lesson.

I don't want the body,* she whimpered. *It hurts.* *Not always, sweetheart. Not always. Without the body, how will you hear a bird's song? How will you feel a warm summer rain on your skin? How will you taste nutcakes? How will you walk on a beach at sunset and feel the sand and surf under your... hooves?*

You're only twenty-four," he said. "You have plenty of scars for someone your age.

It felt like forever, and since I hadn't gone back inside the house to get my wristwatch before we headed out, time was measured by how it felt.

That care included forced lessons, forced cutting, and no chance or choice to experience life.

Mixed feelings and a bruised heart. Maybe that was what a first love was in the end.

Or maybe I was projecting from past experience with men. Man. The one who used to leave me feeling that something was my fault even when I couldn't have controlled someone else's actions or thoughts or opinions.

Let your heart travel lightly. Because what you bring with you becomes part of the landscape.

She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life

For now, he and Meg were going to have the adventure of seeing a new place and having a new experience. Together. He wasn't human. Would never be human. And Meg didn't expect him to be. But feeling her hand in his, Simon thought maybe he could learn to be human enough.

Most of the truly remarkable experiences I've had in theatre have filled me with uncertainty and disorientation

The art experience and the theater experience, gyms for the soul, generate heat and exercise the imagination, empathy, creative thinking, patience and tolerance. A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real.

Consider what a romantic expedition you are on take notes.

Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.