Quotes About Experience

12018Back then, the journey was the thing

It's our scars that define us.

It's our scars that define us, Sara. Diego has to live life to appreciate life.

Laughter is like crying.

and I drown in them, live in them

We would like to gently expand the technique of intuition because it admits change that remains sincere to experience without depending on the past. Intuition reveals the negative space of habit, carving an urgent threshold from the commonplace.

The biggest problem with melancholy is that it is more detailed than the world.

I felt the sadness thoroughly. I believed it then. I wrote the sadness in my diary, I drank the sadness in my room or in cafés, I fucked the sadness. I almost believed I was the sadness.

I've never heard anyone come back from downtown Baltimore waxing poetic about the authenticity of poverty.

Personally, I like to imagine the Godhead dancing it a rhythm of its own, something even grander than a waltz, touching, tasting, smelling, seeing, and hearing, creating wonder after wonder, and when it's finished, looking upon the handiwork and saying, "This is great!

Maybe wisdom tends to latch onto itself when it finds itself in various places.

Despite all the available technology, the tools doctors often rely on most are the most old-fashioned—a phone, a respected colleague, a mentor or friend.

I don't need my head examined, but where were you when I married my second husband. Sheesh.

Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.

Travelling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.

Are you educated in the art of medicine?" Yeah, the art of Walgreens and Urgent Care. "A bit," I hedged.

Without sorrow, 'tis difficult to know the full threshold of joy.

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel on the fringes, in the margins of life. And that's where we belong. What you are a part of, you cannot observe.

The difference between accomplished birders and beginning birders is that accomplished birders have misidentified thousands of birds and beginning birders relatively few.

Some of the hardest things you go through will teach you the most.

No two readers read the same book, because we all see the words through different eyes, filter the story through different life experiences

Like the beach glass, the wood was more beautiful because of its journey, because of the things it had been through. Inside the perfect shells is dim, It's through the cracks, the light comes in.