Quotes About Experience

We met when we were both majoring in Space Invaders with a Pub Etiquette minor at the Happy Harbor Campus of UMass/Boston.

The harsh light above them caught her face, and Sean could see what she'd look like when she was much older - a handsome woman, scarred by wisdom she never asked for.

When it came down to it, though, you had to remember all those assholes cutting you off in traffic and walking the streets and shouting in bars and turning their music up too loud and mugging you and raping you and selling you lemon cars-all those assholes were just children who'd aged. No miracle. Nothing sacred in that.

The lines in her face were deep enough to hide gravel in.

There's darkness in this world you can't learn about by watching TV and reading books.

time is nothing to me but a series of book-marks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and again to the events that mark me

I'd like to say I found a sublime beauty in it all, but I didn't. And yet. And yet, this life we'd built filled our car

Happiness comes in moments, and then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness'"—Val winked—"'sadness settles in.

Another death. The more I see, the less I know.

For a moment-maybe even a succession of moments and none sharp enough to point to as the cause-he'd been happy.

How naive can you be before it becomes unforgivable?

Good movies, man, they give you another life. A whole other future for a while.

Habías visto algo tan cruel? Soltó una risita. —He visto cosas

Nobody learned nothing. Nobody evolved.

She's only forty-two, which, okay, when she was twelve seemed like one foot over the threshold into God's waiting room, but now, living it, is an age that makes her feel no different than she always has. She's twelve, she's twenty-one, she's thirty-three, she's all the ages at the same time. But she isn't aging. Not in her heart. Not in her mind's eye

No, a guy had one on the T when I was coming over here. I work in Cambridge.

Igual se estaba haciendo viejo; sabía que no entender la música de la generación más joven era la primera señal de que la tuya estaba de capa caída

Guy in prison says to me once, he says, 'Happiness comes in moments, and then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness'"—Val winked—"'sadness settles in.

thousands of years of study and experience have made it easier to heal the body, but no one has gotten much past square one on the human mind.

Montooth said. "What you hearing is just wind." "Wind of change maybe," Pearl Eyes said softly. "I'm old enough to know it when I feel it in my hair." Montooth smiled. "You ain't got much hair left." "That's 'cause the wind took it

Experience is the best teacher.... The primary and most obvious reason for this is that revelation is not over, God is constantly revealing himself to us in our experience.... Of

What matters most in doing the examen is to experience an environment of unconditional love in which you feel safe to own your experience and feel all your feelings.

Or to put it another way, fun is during, happiness is during and after.

If we identify having fun with happiness, we will identify the opposite of fun, pain, with unhappiness. However, because no happiness is possible without pain, the attempt always to avoid it by having fun as much as possible makes happiness impossible