Quotes About Experience

Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.

Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.

Maybe life isn't about avoiding the bruises. Maybe it's about collecting the scars to prove we showed up for it.

Maybe love is having someone who guides you through different experiences, coerces you to try new things but still makes you feel safe.

Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it.

Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt.

The difficulties we experience Always illuminate the lessons we need most.

The only thing one never regrets are one's mistakes.

The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels Is your heart. Fill you heart with good things and good things will follow you For the rest fo your life.

The people with the best advice are usually the ones who have been through the most.

There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

Truth divorced from experience will always remain in the realm of doubt.

Good seamanship is recovering from an incident at sea. Great seamanship is avoiding an incident at sea.

are not truly real in the consciousness of human experience until they are unraveled and correlated, until their relevant facts actually become meaning through encircuitment in the thought streams of mind.

Perfection is in the mind that makes mistakes

Everyone does it." "But no one talks about it," Gloria said. "About the different levels of skill involved. You have to practice before you become a great masturbator.

With the stories of people she'd known since her childhood it was like that: one incident in their lives might come to an ending, but others would lead into new veins, and what was fascinating was to look at the whole of it and discern a pattern, a way of being, that had shaped those passages.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

Not a quote. Did Ursula study at Hunter College?

and that's how Snuggles the hamster learned that yes, things COULD always get worse.

She didn't look any older, so far as she could tell from the mirror, but her heart felt like somebody had been scraping the last bits out with a spoon.

I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

There is no one to laugh with about his cookies and milk, to gush about the fact that he is eighteen like I am eighteen only he seems much older.