Quotes About Experience

He lacked the wisdom, and the only way for him to get it was to buy it with his youth; and when wisdom was his, youth would have been spent buying it.

I've been around and I've noticed that walking's easy when the road is flat; them danged ole hiils will get you every time. Yeah, the good Lord gave us mountains so we could learn how to climb.

In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing that they burst into laughter.

In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

We love instinctively, but we love well because we've learned how.

Creer que un cielo en un infierno cabe, dar la vida y el alma a un desengaño: esto es amor. Quien lo probó lo sabe.

I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I've been so blessed that I could never say, "I wish this didn't happen." It's part of who I am.

But I might—" he bit out. "Tell me you're not a fucking virgin." "No, I'm not a fucking virgin. Virgins have yet to fuck, remember?

Every step we take on earth brings us to a new world.

Oh honey, there's nothing new on this earth when it comes to what men and women do in the dark. First love is when you learn. So you've learned that love can open you up like spring sun on a wee primrose. Good. Remember that. You know how to love.

Old women can see through walls.

Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against the incorrigible tradition of antiquity. Something was wanted, beyond all the gifts of reflection and experience -- a faculty of self government and self control, developed like its language in the fibre of a nation, and growing with its growth.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

Woman! experience might have told me, That all must love thee who behold thee: Surely experience might have taught Thy firmest promises are nought: But, placed in all thy charms before me, All I forget, but to adore thee.

But who, alas! can love, and then be wise?

Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

Then away with all such from the head that is hoary! What care I for the wreaths that can only give glory?

Till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth.

While common men grow ignorantly old, The lawyer's brief is like the surgeon's knife, Dissecting the whole inside of a question, And with it all the process of digestion.

The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.