Quotes About Experience

Through the years, you've released parts of you. Some went into the sewer, others you left at your friends' houses, some on the sidewalk while riding your bike as a kid. Your body is used to being taken apart by pieces and put back together. Swapping parts is hardwired into human existence. It takes on a much larger role in death.

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Sagacity did not magically arrive with age. As his family grew, so did his affections. The deeper he loved, the more easily he was injured. His heart had not become reinforced. It had softened--and ripened. It was a larger target and far more easily rent.

It was said that a man does not look behind a door unless he has once stood there.

I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.

And in the end, we are all just stories

Nothing you think at twenty-five is so.

Most risks we might not take if we could see what we would have to go through to reach our goal. Yet, we would never not take most risks if we knew the great learning experience and soul enrichment they would bring.

Write what you know best. If you can't survive a cross-examination from a lawyer on the subject, you won't survive an interview with a journalist or anchorperson." Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications.

You've been in more hotel rooms, Coop, than Gideon's Bible

a type I would never have met, only read about in books, for books were where you found life, without the effort of being in the real world.

The glory of the library for me is how many of the books are in poor physical condition. They are books that have been read and read intensely. They are knocked about and shopworn. I would be ashamed of a book whose spine was not broken.

Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever owned in all your life, each baby shoe and winter coat and wedding dress, you would have your autobiography.

Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever owned in all your life, each baby shoe and winter coat and wedding dress, you would have your autobiography. You could wear, once more, your own life in all its stages, from whatever they wrapped you in when you emerged from the dark red naked warmth of the womb to your deathbed.

Pain itself, as a pure experience, is something different from the anxiety attached to it.

I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.

Sometimes I lay my body down on a marble slab . . . and become poetry.

If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.

if god had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.

For you, I will write of it all --- part truth, part memory, part nightmare --- my life, the one that started so long ago, in a place so far from here . . .

What the narrator comes to realize is that the past "cannot be described objectively" and that her present will always mediate her past.

Failure is how we learn—it's how we develop and acquire grit.

Stay alive so you can tell.

It's not smart to hold yourself away from the shocks of life, the good ones or the bad. They're all part of the mix, and paradoxically, shying away from them only makes things harder.