Quotes About Experience

A surgeon should be young, a physician old.

Did you ever have the measles, and if so, how many?

If you are a gardener, you can always put "Plant Manager" on your résumé.

Gardeners learn by trowel and error.

If I finish my day with no garden dirt under my fingernails and nothing new learned, it is a day wasted!

It's because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it.

College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?

I am having an out-of-money experience.

Some Passages from a Journal That Was Never Kept

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

To learn about eye protection, ask someone who has one.

My personal aesthetic is to be affected directly by everything about what you're seeing… I don't mind being dashed on the rocks… My most base act of defiance is to live a long time and still rock.

Aesthetic experiences are powerful, to be sure, and probably inescapable, but Nature will not remain effective for very long.

Love and respect old age people because you are aging too…

Beauty exists at every age. It's not about youth and perfection.

The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age- when you are going through something like that – the genre is so meaningful.

Age is not how old you are, but how many years of fun you've had.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

That's why I think life is so incredible, right? Anything is possible. You can be one way one day, and then you can have one experience that could be tiny-itty-bitty or big, and it can shift your whole focus and your whole life.

Love isn't safe. And whoever you love will hurt you. It's part of the human experience. No one is perfect…people make mistakes. The secret is to focus on what they do right and decide what quirks you can live with.

"What's that line from T.S. Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up."

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know"

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.