Quotes About Experience

previous visit, she'd thought of Ariana.

Bennett wondered why it took a lifetime for many—if not most—people to figure out that life was meant to be celebrated.

Out of mistakes grows wisdom.

Marcel Proust wrote in Time Regained: "An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase filled with perfumes, sounds, projects, and climates." Every hour my nose is filled with nature's fresh perfume. —DB

Forty-five might seem old to you now, but I promise you it isn't. I'm not yet half as old as my grandmother was when she passed away. I hope I still have a lot of living to do.

Love is seldom what you expect

This was my introduction to mountaineering, and clumsy indeed were my movements as we moved off.

He was not yet old enough to be able to grade his own misfortunes: it is one of the maturer accomplishments.

Another thing they had gained was an appreciation of the value of dulness. As a rule, one tended to long for more drama, to feel that the level stretches of life between its high peaks were a waste of time. Well, there had been enough drama lately. They had lived through seven years in as many days;

A man lives his life only when he is marching, i thought, when he keeps marching onwards at any price. When he stops marching onwards, he decays. The joy of life is the joy of the experience that comes from feeling one's own strength.

Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

My dear Alicia, of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a man of his age! Just old enough to be formal, ungovernable, and to have the gout; too old to be agreeable, too young to die.

Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal...

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

We must live and learn.

Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.