Quotes About Experience

We best teach what we ourselves have learned.

It's so weird to say this about the icon and legend that is Cher, but she's like an old girlfriend. We still talk all the time. She's an incredible person personally and professionally, giving such amazing advice, stories for days, been there done that. She's one of a kind.

I'm turning 30 years old this year ... it's better than 20, I'll tell you that. The lessons I've learned.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason — to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?" Molly asks when Vivian reads some of these stories aloud. "It certainly helps," Vivian says.

Time constricts and flattens, you know. It's not evenly weighted. Certain moments linger in the mind and others disappear. The first twenty-three years of my life are the ones that shaped me, and the fact that I've lived almost seven decades since then is irrelevant.

And even if she loses the charms, she thinks, they'll always be a part of her. The things that matter stay with you, seep into your skin. People get tattoos to have a permanent reminder of things they love or believe or fear, but though she'll never regret the turtle, she has no need to ink her flesh again to remember the past. She had not known the markings would be etched so deep.

Time constricts and flattens, you know. It's not evenly weighted. Certain moments linger in the mind and others disappear. The first twenty-three years of my life are the ones that shaped me, and the fact that I've lived almost seven decades since then is irrelevant. Those years have nothing to do with the questions you ask.

The first twenty-three years of my life are the ones that shaped me, and the fact

The older I get, the more I believe that the greatest kindness

Because we're older. And this is where we belong." "No it isn't. It is just where we ended up.

The truth is, when I'm immersed in a book I'm less aware of the pain in my unpredictable arms and legs.

Actually, I did it because when we lived on Indian Island we had this turtle named Shelly.

Time constricts and flattens, you know. It's not evenly weighted. Certain moments linger in the mind and others disappear.

And eventually-though neither of us knew it yet-we'd end up here, in this place, within and without the world of the painting.

The things that matter stay with you, seep into your skin

Regret?" Vivian raises her shoulders in a shrug. "I'm not sure what good it is to regret.

Molly learned long ago that a lot of the heartbreak and betrayal that other people fear their entire lives, she has already faced...So when she says it's okay, what she means is that she knows she can survive just about anything.

We both start laughing - at the absurdity of our shared experience, the relief of recognition. We cling to each other like survivors of a shipwreck, astonished that neither of us drowned.

And even if she loses the charms, she thinks, they'll always be a part of her. The things that matter stay with you, seep into your skin.

Las cosas que importan se quedan contigo, se filtran en tu piel.

she knew from experience that touch and weird is preferable to pathetic and vulnerable

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason—to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?

But finally we found the place—an Irish pub, as seedy as the roughest ones on the backstreets of Galway.

I'm an ambassador for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and one of the children, his wish was to go to the Emmys, so he's going to be my date, along with my husband, and my dad and his girlfriend. So we're going to have a really fun night and it's going to be really exciting. I'm really excited for him to experience that.