Quotes About Experience

How many of us are the same as we were at seventeen? Or even at twenty-five? We learn, we grow, and hopefully become better and wiser women. That's not something to regret. It's something to celebrate.

We are who are, Memory Thibodeaux," he said. "Because of who we've been.

Naught is simple about the truth. There is the truth of what happened and the truth of what I believe happened and the truth of what I still remember to have happened. And that does not embrace the truths perceived and remembered by others, let alone whether any of us witnessed the fullness of the truth in the first place.

Despite being in her mid-20s she only passed her test a few months ago and is still a nervous driver,

that our memories are forever evolving, so we only remember the version of the memory we last recalled rather than the original event.

Gli eventi della vita ci cambiano. Come se la nostra anima - sempre che l'anima esista - fosse fatta di una plastilina che viene costantemente rimodellata.

Travel empties out everything you've into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are

Maybe that's what made a memory powerful. Not that it happened once, but that it happened over and over again on the screen of your mind.

It is important that fear of failure should not prevent your son from experiencing life to the full.

It's a hard feeling but as we walk along I begin to settle and let the difference between my life at home and the one I have here be.

She puts her arm around me. 'You're just too young to understand.' As soon as she says this, I realise she is just like everyone else, and wish I was back at home so that all the things I do not understand could be the same as they always are.

The years don't slow down any as they pass.

Eat it, smoke it, stay up all night for it because the memories of the damage you wreak upon your body when you are young will sustain your spirit when you are old.

How will we be inspired to love and protect the natural wold we depend on if we have no direct experience in it?

No one had ever touched her like this. It was perfect, almost too perfect, but only almost. "Fuck

He saw the world more vividly than other people, and reacted to what he saw with laughter, horror, indignation, and sometimes sobs.

There isn't a woman I know who hasn't said they wished they'd listened to their mother… especially where the three Big Ms of women's lives are concerned: mothering, money, and men.

Claire: Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective human destiny.

A description of autism must be anecdotal; without anecdotes there are words but not experience.

Clara Claiborne Park

I write now what 15 years past I would still not have thought possible to write: that if today I were given the choice to accept the experience, with everything that it entails, or to refuse the bitter largesse, I would have to stretch out my hands — because out of it has come, for all of us, an unimagined life. And I will not change the last word of the story. It is still love.

No matter how slick the technology or charming the person on screen, I don't think we'll ever be able to replicate the full extent of the human learning experience online.

not-so-grand metropolis of Portland.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can`t.