Quotes About Experience

Believing is different from living, stop believing and start living.

Coffee connects me to the world, wine disconnects me".

Do not waste, your only chance to live, the greatest human experience, to be happy."

Everything is easy when you don't know how to do it.

Life is a gift, living is a surprise.

The clock doesn't care about time and wine doesn't care about age.

Today I have a heated pool, but I've swam with a lot of sharks."

The photo is black and white, but the memory is in color.

Children are ingenuous. They are also blessed with uncanny ability to read a person's character instantly. Even though they are inexperienced and unsophisticated, they often know instinctively who can be trusted and who is the charlatan.

Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.

these days of exotic splendour may stand out in each lifetime like marble mileposts in an alluvial land

Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: 'My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing.' That is the tone of innocence.

Reality's kind of a medium, maybe greater than paper. We all want life to have the same texture that we read about in novels.

As an adult, getting paid thousands of dollars a week to say, "Aye, Sir. Course laid in" is a seriously sweet gig, but when I was a teenager, it sucked.

life is like a season sometimes happy and sometimes sad.

The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180 000 words - but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called 'The Gods First Make Mad.' It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didn't let that put me off.

I have been blessed in many ways, and one of those is to have been born in Africa, for me a great treasure house of stories. I have been researching it since my infancy reading about it, talking to men and women who have spent their lives in this land, living it as I have and loving it as I do. I write almost entirely from my own experience.

When a traveller gets a thorn in his foot,' Mbejane went on softly, 'and he is wise he plucks it out – and he is a fool who leaves it and says "I will keep this thorn to prick me so that I will always remember the road upon which I have travelled." Nkosi, it is better to remember with pleasure than with pain.

I tasted freedom and a way of life from which there could be no recall.

No, it is not the goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way the more worth while the journey.

The meat smelt rank and was very tough, the soup was greasy and of a curious flavour, but it was a wonderful meal after all these hungry weeks.

Ich höre jetzt nur noch das Wehklagen meiner ratlosen Seele. Sie möchte gern etwas erleben, was ihrer Zartheit entspricht, und nicht immerzu dem Zwangsabonnement der Wirklichkeit ausgeliefert sein.

Ya?amak için ihtiyac?m olan inceli?in biraz?n? sadece melankolimde bulabiliyorum.

Sadistic brutality and mystical feeling go always hand in hand when the normal capacity for orgastic experience is lacking. This was as true of the inquisitors of the medieval church, of the cruel and mystical Philip II of Spain, as it is of any modern mass murderer.