Quotes About Experience

To a Young Nun This undemanding love that our staggered births have purchased for us — You in your generation, I in mine. I am not the one you are looking for. You are not the one I've stopped looking for. How sweetly time disposes of us as we go arm in arm over the Bridge of Details: Your turn to chop. My turn to cook. Your turn to die for love. My turn to resurrect.

and once again I am a singer in the lower choirs, born fifty years ago to raise my voice this high, and no higher.

to the young let me say: I am not sage, rebbe, roshi, guru I am Bad Example. to experienced persons who have criticized my life work as cheap, superficial, pretentious, insignificant: you do not know how Right you are.

He let me be a student of a love that I will never be able to give.

To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences to Judas Iscariot, the daily companionship of Jesus of Nazareth was not.

In the realm of aesthetics, reason is always subordinate to perception.

Not a problem kid or anything like that so when you're in the legal system like that, it's always hard on a person for the first time to go through some things like that.

I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP

I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.

Because I have known despair I value hope Because I have tasted frustration I value fulfillment Because I have been lonely I value love

An experience of God that cost nothing, does nothing, and is worth nothing.

We make a product and sell it. How hard can it be? Every douchebag either one of us has ever worked for has managed to do this!

As old wood is best to burn; old horses to ride; old books to read; old wine to drink; so are old friends most trusty to use.

Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.

Il libro è una cosa: lo si può mettere su un tavolo e guardarlo soltanto, ma se lo apri e leggi diventa un mondo." - Leonardo Sciascia

All the time she had been grasping the air with her hands, in an impassioned effort to express herself. 'Here was not just food, but an experience. It was all of Popisho, the smells and textures, it was - it was - all our love and our losses and our beauty, struggles, history, our childhoods ... it was perfect, it was perfect for me.

Touch me, he thought, and all he could think was: love me, and all he could think was: why I never prepare for this moment better? Look how I had all these years of life to ready myself for your arrival, and what I did with them? Wasted them on other women, and other ideas, and now you here, I not ready. He wanted to sit in front of her and have her tell him everything she'd ever experienced in all of her life.

Hell: a personalised service.

As we educate a child -- removing out of its path those obstacles over which we ourselves, in early days, have stumbled, and strengthening its mind with the aid of our own matured experience -- we, as it were, construct a new and better replica of ourselves, and thus enable the race to move slowly, but surely, forward towards the ultimate goal of existence -- towards perfection.

Lucrezia's Borgia instincts and experience had taught her that these moments do not last long, and she lent herself to the festivities wholeheartedly.

You can't love anyone until you have drawn blood and dipped in your fingers and enjoyed it.

If young people tell me I'm young at heart, I take offence -- I'm OLD at heart. Si la gente joven me dice que soy joven de corazón, me ofendo: soy VIEJA de corazón.

People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.