Quotes About Experience

Story of O is one of those books which marks the reader, which leaves him not quite, or not at all, the same as he was before he read it.

You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.

Él era demasiado joven para saber el impudor que hay en la inmovilidad y el silencio.

I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf… Let's leave our books free to travel, then, to be touched by other hands, and enjoyed by other eyes.

fate is strange.. almost no one i know married the first love of their lives. but for those who did are always telling me that they missed soemthing important, that they didn't experience all that they might have.. - by the river piedra i sat down and wept

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

Don't bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.

Don't think about what you've left behind The alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.

There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.

Never be ashamed,' he said. 'Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.' 'How will I know which is which?' 'By the taste. You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.

Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, Oh, the book is better.

Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.

Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.

Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.

I've been through all this before,' he says to his heart. " 'Yes, you have been through all this before,' replies his heart. 'But you have never been beyond it.

People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.

It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.

The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort