Quotes About Experience

The important thing isn't proving you can achieve a goal, but living every moment along the way, even the side trips

past travels with you. It's whether you run from it or learn from it that makes all the difference.

I have lived my way into this music, note by note, and now I know no other.

I want a pain I understand instead of the one I don't. I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not

Along our journey, people and events flow into us, and we are created of everywhere and everyone we have passed. Each event, each person, changes us in some way. Even in times of drought we are still moving and growing, but it is during seasons of rain that we expand the most-when water flows from all directions, sweeping at terrifying speed, chasing against rocks, spilling over boundaries. These are painful times, but they enable us to carry burdens we could never have thought possible.

think. The great thing about literature is that it's subjective. No two readers read the same book, because we all see the words through different eyes, filter the story through different life experiences.

The thing about mistakes is, they become valuable when you learn from them. I

That's what I'd say in my essay about To Kill a Mockingbird, I decided. I'd make sure the English teacher knew that the story of Jem and Scout and Atticus Finch wasn't just words someone made up in a book. There were people who lived it—people of all different

Life at the Excelsior had been a good training for life in general.

chance on foreign territory.

When we lose our stories, we lose ourselves.

When we have little else, our stories still have value.

the past travels with you. It's whether you run from it or learn from it that makes all the difference.

I have lived entirely, every moment in this wild and delicate place. What more would there be for me to do, if I lived to be one hundred? One bold year is worth a dozen timid ones.

so many of the things we struggle with as human beings are not unique to our generation. There are lessons to be learned from those who've wandered these paths before us.

Life is not unlike cinema. Each scene has its own music, and the music is created for the scene, woven to it in ways we do not understand. No matter how much we may love the melody of

It's funny how mistakes are so much clearer after you've already made them.

rivers. We are born somewhere small and quiet and we move toward a place we cannot see, but only imagine. Along our journey, people and events flow into us, and we are created of everywhere and everyone we have passed.

Indian wisdom says our lives are rivers. We are born somewhere small and quiet and we move toward a place we cannot see, but only imagine. Along our journey, people and events flow into us, and we are created of everywhere and everyone we have passed.

Life is the messy bits.

because we had survived sisters and brothers, daughters and sons, we discovered bones that rose from the dark earth and sang as white birds in the trees Because the story of our life becomes our life Because each of us tells the same story but tells it differently and none of us tells it the same way twice . . (from, Why We Tell Stories)

Todo momento de encontrar es un perderse a sí mismo.

I like to travel. I love touring, I love playing.

Never believe in any faith younger than you are.