Quotes About Experience

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Camping has become one of my most beloved pastimes. I take a fierce delight in swinging a pak o my back or into a canoe and heading for the hills or lakes. In my opinion, camping can be the greatest expression of free will, personal independence, innate ability, and resourcefulness possible today in our industrialized, urbanized existence. Regardless of how miserable or how splendid the circumstances, the sheer experience of camping seems a total justification for doing it.

Older women have the experience and maturity to offer the greatest service and skills to society of any segment of our population. They are at the peak of their promise. …Since we are the natural care-takers in this world, I feel the greatest good that women can do is help the environmental movement." Anne LaBastille, Woodswoman III

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain.

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.

Names are like codes, yes? Like magic codes. They have everything that ever happened to you squeezed tightly inside them.

Noah had never had to wait in line to go into a grocery store,

It was not something you could call friendship; it was at once less and more. The sharing of such experiences created a bond and set them apart from all others. It was not something that could be told to another person. There were no words with a meaning both could understand which would impart the physical horror or the heights and depths of emotion.

The four signs of aging "Courage, Strength, Wisdom & I don't remember...

I broke with my religion in college.

Laughter nibbled at my lips like tiny fish in warm water.

A woman like that is not a woman, quite.I have been her kind.

I know that I have died before—once in November.

I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year's cupful and downward into a decade's quart and downward into a lifetime's ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman's float.

Pain engraves a deeper memory.

Now listen, life is lovely, but I CAN'T LIVE IT. I can't even explain. I know how silly it sounds … but if you knew how it FELT.

I have been her kind.

In a dream, you are never eighty.

You don't believe in God, Rachel. You don't believe in goodness or love or mercy, do you?" "I haven't seen enough to form an opinion." "But you believe in the devil?" "When I'm sitting in a car with him, yes," she said.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.