Quotes About Experience

Only the young think being called old is an insult

We still hadn't learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee.

I feel stupid." "Good," Michael said. "It's good for everyone to feel that way sometimes. It helps remind you how much you still have to learn.

It's our common enemy, though it isn't, really, an enemy. Pain is, at least when our bodies are working properly, a teacher. A really tough, really strict, and perfectly fair teacher.

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. Pain is a part of life.

Sometimes it's a big part, and sometimes it isn't, but either way, it's part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed.

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

Some free advice for you: Never fight an old man. They've been there, done that, written the book, made and starred in the movie, designed the T-shirt, and they've got no ego at all about how the fight gets won. And never fight family. They know you too well.

Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.

There is but one reality, that is true -- but the two of you experience it in slightly different ways. The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass, Miss Lancaster.

When the pain was gone, its simple lack was a nearly narcotic pleasure of its own.

There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen," Nedus said, idly employing the old Legion maxim. "But very few old, bold swordsmen.

Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee.

You think you know the world," the old man said. "You're barely in it yet. You ain't seen what it gets like. How bad it can get. How cruel.

It should satisfy your concerns as to his judgement- to make the mistakes of youth is no crime, but not to learn from them is. Agreed?

There is but one reality; that is true - but the two of you experience it in slightly different ways. The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass.

Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk.

We still hadn't learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.

Your advice is good. For a young man, you have good judgment." "You haven't seen my car.

In my experience, ghouls hadn't done much that wasn't disgusting. There was no reason to expect them to die cleanly, either.

I guess being dead gives you a whole different perspective on life.

Y así, caminé a través de un paisaje espectral plagado de calaveras, a pesar de la tormenta que se avecinaba, hacia una casa llena de poder maligno que latía con una fuerza mística feroz y salvaje. Avancé para enfrentarme a un adversario asesino que tenía todas las ventajas, que estaba preparado y mientras que yo estaba armado con nada más que mi propia destreza, mi ingenio y mi experiencia. ¿Tengo un trabajo genial o no?

Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get.