Quotes About Experience

We call them feelings because we feel them. They don't start in our minds, they arise in our bodies

the happening and the telling are very different things. This doesn't mean that the story isn't true, only that I honestly don't know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it.

I'm seeing so much of America today," Luya kept telling Lowell in nervously accented English. It became a personal catchphrase for him — whenever things were not to his liking, he'd say that — I'm seeing so much of America today.

Here is my objection to submarines and space travel: not enough windows. What difference does it make if you're in outer space or underwater, or wherever, if you can't feel, or hear, or see or smell it?

My brother and sister have led extraordinary lives, but I wasn't there, and I can't tell you that part. I've stuck here to the part I can tell, the part that's mine, and still everything I've said is all about them, a chalk outline around the space where they should have been. Three children, one story. The only reason I'm the one telling it is that I'm the one not currently in a cage.

The rest of the night was an endless dream sequence directed by David Lynch

This is a good reminder that no one in the world is a reliable source for their own story.

What have you learned? my father asked, and I didn't have the words then, but, in retrospect, the lesson seemed to be that what you accomplish will never matter so much as where you fail.

I wasn't happy, exactly, but I was remembering how happiness felt.

We call them feelings because we feel them. They don't start in our minds, they arise in our bodies.

My attention determines the depth and quality of my experience.

Vidas comunes que se ven tan sólo interrumpidas por la dicha o tragedia.

La vida no es siempre logica

My body's been here before a thousand times, and it gets on with the job without asking my brain if it has anything to say about opening fire.

You ever worked with Wookiees?" The commandos shook their heads, wide-eyed. "Well, everything you've heard is true.

of it, a man who did his fair share of killing

Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.

Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.

How I compare it to now is, at this moment we are all living through, everyone on earth is experiencing a suspension of loss. Over half a million people dead in the United States alone. The number is too overwhelming to accept, so we go on with our lives and we do what we can but, in the end, the staggering loss will be waiting for us. It always catches up to you, doesn't it?

I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.

Everybody felt that history was like a book, a beginning, a middle and an end. That's not how it worked. Real life was all middle.

Age is a cruel punishment for youth.

My point is that you see these people in a way that I will never see them. Your experiences are no longer my experiences. I can't guide you any longer because I don't know where you're going.

older and she always got to drive. She opened