Quotes About Experience

That was one thing you could say for a life of complications: it made for good stories, though someone had always suffered for them.

the only good things about getting old was mutual permission to be imperfect.

It is in time of peace that the value of life is fixed. The test of war reveals it.

Lisa Ann Sandell

There is a look in his eye, a heavy look that makes him seem older, as though in one night he has lived one hundred lifetimes. And it makes him appear even more handsome.

Knowledge is always worth more than innocence. Or ignorance.

Writers of memoir are storytellers, and the point of a personal story is to make a truth that resonates for you, that closes the experience around a narrative and brings it to completion.

Looking back on their own teenage years, most adults feel grateful that there's no easy-to-access document of all the dumb things they did.

A brand is a voice and a product is a souvenir.

Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.

Pain has a flavor. The question is...what does it taste like to you?

There's no rewind, or erasing, or unmaking. The things that happened, they are you, you are them. You can escape, but you can't get away. Just the way it is.

You couldn't get where you were going without knowing where you'd been. And you couldn't be anywhere at all without having been almost there for a while.

Sometimes memories hit like a wallop, all of a sudden, and hard. Other times, for no reason that anyone can explain, memories take much longer to sink in. They seem to meander a bit before choosing which mind to settle into.

You can't get where you're going without being where you've been.

Time heals all wounds, I'm sure it's true, but not until after the wounds have been felt.

I've always been around dudes and sports.

Your Authentic Self is informed by the experiences and hard-won wisdom you've accrued throughout your life. It's also about expression: who you are when you are free and uncensored.

When I read a book it feels like real life and when I put the book down it's like I go back into the dream.

He] didn't view the less idyllic chapters of his life as the results of "mistakes." He didn't believe in mistakes. He believed in a preordained path, and so far every point on this path had felt right. Every bad relationship had felt right, every shitty job he'd done had felt right - because he'd chosen them.

They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that.

He knows there's more to life than five major events, that life is made up of all the moments in between.

His minute steak was tough and chewy, the chips were too greasy, and the ketchup wasn't Heinz.

Wanting to die and dying are generally unrelated.