Quotes About Experience

EXTRAPOLATE is principally defined as: "to project, extend, or expand known data or experience into an area not known or experienced so as to arrive at a usually conjectural knowledge of the unknown area by inferences based on an assumed continuity, correspondence, or other parallelism between it and what is known." Whee! Did you get

which of any two events is earlier and which later, combined with his consciousness of an instantaneous present that is continuously being transformed into a remembered past as it is replaced with an anticipated future.

James Henry Hyslop

experienced a sort of "change-of-mind-space," or sort of a "benevolent breath" — and knew that one day I would do something "big" in parapsychology.

To know what you want to share with the world because something has been transmitted to you is to know loneliness and real solitude, because no one else can share it.

While both of these adages may be somewhat appropriate in certain situations, it might daringly be pointed up that if we BECOME and ARE only what we experience, then it is not quite clear why we need intellect-intelligence or wisdom in the first place – because what we experience would do it ALL for us.

In this, the thinking proceeds from actual experience and not from analyzing the information packages presented in the works of others.

I knew. I was not naive. I didn't want to know. I was naive.

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

Estas visiones, yo lo sabía, quedarían para siempre impresas en mi memoria, pero nunca tendrían eco en los recuerdos de los míos. Los buenos recuerdos son aquellos que vivimos con los que amamos, porque podemos evocarlos juntos.

but for her it has been no shame to suffer labor, pain, exile, because in laboring I improved, in suffering I became experienced, in exile I learned, for I found daily rest in brief labor, immense joy in slight pain, and a broad homeland in my narrow exile.

suffice to say, joy is where you find it- usually on the shelf right next to sadness.

You may just miss an awesome ride if you only look at happiness as a destination.

e che altro infatti son mai le anime nostre se non memoria, affetto, pensiero e speranza?

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

uncorny, human sized drama

Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler

Anyone who needs more than one suitcase," he said as he double-locked their door, "is a tourist, not a traveler.

Les gens qui ont besoin de plus qu une valise ne sont pas de vrais voyageurs, ce sont des touristes.

You miss a lot watching life from the sidelines--and letting fear hold you back.

Beautiful hours move so quickly. ? Irene Hunt, Up a Road Slowly . (Berkley; 2nd ed. edition January 4, 2005) Originally published 1966

Memories of the past would return to us more often if only we sought them out, sought their intense sweetness. But we let them slumber within us, and worse, we let them die, rot, so much so that the generous impulses that sweep through our souls when we are twenty we later call naive, foolish…Our purest, most passionate loves take on the depraved appearance of sordid pleasure.