Quotes About Experience

You hear the phrase all the time: a brush with death. What they don't tell you is that the brush has paint on it. And once it touches you, you can't get it off.

Did I love her then? Yes, in a genuine way. But I knew it wasn't everlasting, and that was okay. We had the time that we had, and we would be together for the rest of it.

So much happiness can only make me sad.

Amber nods. "I once went out with a witch. It didn't end well." "What happened?" "I didn't get along with her cat.

I don't understand this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired. In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals. I know this is hard for people to do, but I don't understand why it's so hard, when it's so obvious.

You can tell a lot about a person based on the pages he or she journals on

I wake up the next morning in Beyoncé's body.

A city presents many different faces, and it is up to the traveller to assemble the proper composite.

Because you also want to be on the other side of the window, living life instead of just thinking about it.

it doesn't feel good or bad just a buzz of different.

But as i've told him a million times, when it comes to true dancing, it doesn't matter what you look like-it's all about the joy you feel.

What a powerful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other animals do not, how extraordinary the ability to consider a time that's never been experienced. And how tragic not to consider it. It galls us, we with such a limited future, to see someone brush it aside as meaningless, when it has an endless capacity for meaning, and an endless number of meanings that can be found within it.

I am a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell

This is how we understand. We wore your flaws. We wore your fears. We made your mistakes.

The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday

living life instead of just thinking about it.

I don't remember what book it was - it almost doesn't matter, because the sensation of being read to is so much more powerful than any individual story.

It doesn't work," she continues, unclasping her hands, smoothing her skirt. "What you're feeling right now doesn't work. You can't wander around and think the wandering will call them back. Believe me. I know you don't want to hear the long view, but let me tell you. You are so young. I know it's none of my business. But still.

I shed my borrowed life for an hour and put on the borrowed life of the book I'm reading.

Some people have lives; some people have music.

We lost track of time because we felt like time had lost track of us.

To swim is to transform yourself into an unnatural creature, to take on an element that should not be your own. To swim is to experience the world differently, or to experience a different world temporarily.

I should have felt proud, but instead I felt awful. That I had let him down so many times, that I had been a horrible brother. That he loved me anyway. That maybe he knew more about life than I did, even if I'd had more experience. Because knowing about life is really about knowing how it should be, not just how it is.

Perhaps it never happened. Perhaps it happened while I was asleep. Most likely, there's no signal event. There's just the steady accumulation of 'awhile'.