Quotes About Experience

Take this as a gift from a crone to a maiden, and know there is not so much difference between the two. For even a tottering granddam keeps a portion of girlish heart, and the youngest maiden a thread of old womans wisdom.

Under these circumstances, silence among such a large group of people is an uncomfortable thing to experience. Guilt spreads around even to those who have nothing to feel guilty about. Many held their breath. Or, as I heard later, many did what me and my mum did and closed their eyes. We closed our eyes in a bid to remove ourselves.

You cannot read Dickens without putting in a little more effort. You cannot eat a ripe pawpaw without its innards and juice spilling down your chin. Likewise, the language of Dickens makes your mouth do strange things, and when you're not used to his words your jaw will creak.

We were young. Everyone was young in those days. That's the main complaint you hear from people who are getting old. You stop seeing young people. You begin to wonder if there are any left and whether there were only young people when you were young.

Pip is an orphan who is given the chance to create his own self and destiny. Pip's experience also reminds us of the emigrant's experience. Each leaves behind the place he grew up in. Each strikes out on his own. Each is free to create himself anew. Each is also free to make mistakes...

No man's knowledge can go beyond his experience.

He would be laughed at, that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger, at past fifty. And he will not have much better success, who shall endeavour, at that age, to make a man reason well, or speak handsomely, who has never been used to it, though you should lay before him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory.

The old know what they want the young are sad and bewildered.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

She leaned over the bed to plant a goodbye kiss on his cheek. Instead he reached up and cupped her head in his left hand, so that he was in charge of her kiss and it landed oh his lips. It was not, as she would have expected, the fumbling kiss of a boy unused to dating but the practiced kiss of a man who knew exactly what he was doing.

Karma isn't a punishment, it's a teaching aid. The idea behind reincarnation is that for most of us one lifetime isn't enough to learn all the spiritual lessons we're signed up for. Karma gives us a chance to retake the classes we flunk. If we mess things up in one lifetime, we're allowed to come back and experience a similar situation—maybe from another angle—so we can learn the lessons we didn't get the first time.

A person without regrets is called a corpse.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

Hands are integral with brains, almost another lobe for intelligence. What one does not know through one's hands, one does not truly know.

The demands of motherhood especially consume the old self, and replace it with something new, often better and wiser, sometimes wearier or disillusioned, or tense and terrified, certainly more self-knowing, but never the same again.

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something.

It is only by working the rituals, that any significant degree of understanding can develop. If you wait until you are positive you understand all aspects of the ceremony before beginning to work, you will never begin to work.

Age is never so old as youth would measure it.

Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.