Quotes About Experience

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

Nina," he said. "Nina, I hope that you can hear me. I'm going to do my best to verbalize what I'm experiencing.

I seem to be inside a kind of artificial environment. Almost like a... a simulacrum of Reiden Lake.

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

öldürmek ve ölmek aras?nda üçüncü bir ÅŸey var: yaÅŸamak.

It didn't happen the way one can tell it; but if once can tell it as it was, then one wasn't in on it, or it all happened so long ago that candor comes too easily. In order to make the story tellable, one has to separate and put into sequence events which in reality were so entangled as to be inexplicable...

Aber alles, was wir aussprechen, muss wahr sein, weil wir es empfinden. Da haben Sie mein poetisches Geständnis

dem Leben ins Gesicht zu sehen, älter und doch nicht härter zu werden." (33)

What a live person can tell, being alive, would finally kill a dead person: flippancy. Therefore, one cannot, unfortunately, cling to the facts, which are too mixed up with chance and don't tell much.

Indem wir die Gegenwart gewahr werden, ist sie schon vorüber, das Bewußtsein des Genusses liegt immer in der Erinnerung.

Even then Christa left. Later she often repeated this procedure - of going away - and there's a pattern to be read here, even on first sight: you leave what you know too well, leave what has ceased to be a challenge. Keep your curiosity about other ranges of experience, and ultimately about yourself in any new experience. Prefer the movement to the goal. - Such a nature has obvious drawbacks for its surroundings and itself.

auch Hände haben ein Gedächtnis.

And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them.

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

Nur wer vor 1789 gelebt hat, weiss, wie angenehm das Leben sein kann

Und ich weiß heute noch, wie der Kuss schmeckte, nämlich nach Wein und nach Honig.

It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great lessons.

A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such.

Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement.

Anthropologist Richard Grossinger, Ph.D., puts it this way: "Guess what? God created beings not to act in a morality play but to experience what is unfathomable, to elicit what can become, to descend into the darkness of creation and reveal it to him [or her], to mourn and celebrate enigma and possibility. The universe is a whirling dervish, not a hanging judge in robes.

Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know what's not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities.

Sometimes lessons take time to learn.