Quotes About Experience

The feet of labourers, pilgrims and explorers smoothed these stones. The stones were changed and the travellers were too.

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.

The act of living one's own destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understanding, whose objective is always to... make us learn the lessons necessary to fulfill our own destiny.

It would harm me more to be living a life without meaning. In a war, everyone knows they're experiencing something important.

Shugendo means: "the way of the art of accumulating experience" - he replied, revealing that his interests go beyond the variety of insects in the region - By disciplining one's body to accept everything nature has to offer; in this way you will also educate your soul for that which God has to offer.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always tales us somewhere.

I'm not as good as I once was, but I am as good once as I ever was.

She traveled a lot, got married a lot, divorced a lot, and always carried the scent of patchouli in the multiethnic clothing she invariably wore.

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage—and indeed perhaps more.

The days of my youth are past and to a woman full grown a kiss means everything—or nothing.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him… a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.

The tears of the old come as easily as the tears of children

Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge.

but in her everything lasted. She had all she ever had. Everything she had, the home she and Mark had made, his death, Blake's sharp and passionate love to make her know herself a woman, the children—she had all of it forever, to be the rich experience from which she drew her life, her life which was so much more than her mortal

One faces the future with one's past

Nations, like individuals, can only learn by their own individual experience." Yul-chun

Books he would always learn from, for people, great people, put the best of themselves into books. Books were a distillation of people. But people would be his teachers, and people were not in schoolrooms. People were everywhere.

Déjame estar triste, es la única forma que conozco de estrujar la felicidad para que después no me pene.

It had to do with the way women throughout time has known the feel of love when it came to them.

At one time or another, every young man will get a letter of admission to dick school. The question is will he drop out, graduate, or go for an advanced degree?

Just think about it. As midwives, we meet wildly interesting people and stay up all night with them. We ask them questions about their sex lives, eat their food, feel inside their bodies, snoop around their houses, drink champagne at all hours, and best of all, we get to catch delicious little naked, wet babies. What I can't figure out is, why doesn't everyone want to be a midwife?

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.

Pain is not a punishment, pleasure is not a reward.