Quotes About Experience

Nadie mejor que mis errores

Nació un hombre entre muchos que nacieron, viví entre muchos hombres que vivieron, y esto no tiene historia sino tierra.

El pie del niño aún no sabe que es pie, y quiere ser mariposa o manzana. Pero luego los vidrios y las piedras, las calles, las escaleras, y los caminos de la tierra dura van enseñando al pie que no puede volar, que no puede ser fruto redondo en una rama.

Another's. She will be another's. As she was before my kisses. Her voice, her bright body, Her infinite eyes. I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Vinimos aquí a comer. Y nos dirán: y porqué no a pensar, a filosofar, a estudiar? Todo eso lo hacemos y lo hicimos. Pero lo callamos.

We don't grow older we grow riper.

The older you get, the stronger the wind gets — and it's always in your face.

We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

It takes a long time to grow young.

A morte não é a maior perda da vida. A maior perda da vida é o que morre dentro de nós enquanto vivemos...

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

It takes a long time to become young

Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting

Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much more to know than you knew there was to know when young that it is moot whether you think you knew more then than now or less, or do you now know that you never knew anything at all and never will and only the bluster of youth persuaded you that you did or would?

Do you try to listen to calssical music but feel you don't ever really advance past knowing it's better than it sounds?

I don't really think any of us are women right when we turn eighteen, or even twenty-one for that matter. You have to live a little. I certainly tried to do that.

Foods are like men: some are good, some are bad, and some are okay only in small doses. But most should be tried at least once.

The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.

How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us. But we have to ask with an open heart, with no idea what the answer will be.

When you look into your baby's eyes," my friend Sarah once said to me, "that will become your Tibet." I have no doubt that looking into one's own baby's eyes is many inexpressibly wonderful things, but one thing it is not is Tibet.

Life is like sex. It's not always good, but its always worth trying.

Most people's lives go unrecorded, or worse unlived.

Alanis Morissette: "You live, you learn. You love, you learn. You cry, you learn. You lose, you learn." I think there's something pretty comforting in knowing that even the biggest mistakes I'm inevitably going to make will turn me into who I'll be at thirty.

All right, get out a bowl," I told her. "It has to be a beautiful bowl." "Why?" "Because then the whole experience will be more pleasurable. Pick one you like.