Quotes About Experience

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Forty is the old age of youth while fifty is the youth of old age.

A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.

The banal perception - all the most profound perceptions are banal, at most one man finds a somewhat more original expression for it than another man - that we know nothing at all except what we have experienced ourselves.

Learning is, after all, not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. -Richard Bach

I doubt you would recognize an adventure of any sort if it came right up and bit you on the a--- Mother! I was going to say arm.

Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder.

pues son las situaciones adversas las que ponen a prueba el significado de la felicidad y la capacidad del individuo para encajarlas en su propia vida.

To borrow Julia Creet's phrase, maybe "memory is where we have arrived rather than where we have left." ... I used to think I was a transcriber of my own experiences and memories, adding an image here and there, but now I think I am more of a shaper. I take small fragments of image, memory, silence, and thought, and shape them with imagninary hands into something different.

I was crazy back then, I must admit. I had an extreme attitude.

Defeats are merely repeats with better information.

IN THE END, THE JOURNEY OF THE STORY BEGINS

A crushing defeat is the most humbling inoculation for arrogance.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.

Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.

If we want to know the Glory of God, if we want to experience the beauty of God, and if we want to be used by the hand of God, then we must LIVE in the WORD of God.

As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.

The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.

This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.