Quotes About Experience

Ci sono certe cose, nel cuore, che non muoiono, e gli amori della prima infanzia sono gli amori più forti.

Ma non è cosa oziosa dire che il cuore, l'animo e lo spirito di un bambino possono essere spezzati [...] L'amore può morire altrettanto facilmente, se non più amaramente, nel cuore di un bambino che in quello di un adulto.

It was at 25, not 15, that I began to write. Yes, there were attempts before, writing attempts, but they were the mere scribbling of a child who through no fault of her own knew only half an alphabet. Now, in my 27th year, it is appetite I have, and abundance to garner. I can make up for lost time—and time is what I have to seek some truths and pull together some lost pieces. It's okay. I'll do it. I'll make up those years.

I was so determined to experience everything and everyone I could that I don't think I ever stopped to truly appreciate any of it. Then, somewhere along the way, I realized it's important to have a good reason to experience the things in my life. Not just because they're there.

Every day should be an adventure, not a treadmill

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune.

A new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows the corners.

Youth has a small head

So the navy-blue married man tells me that he's from Northern Germany and that's why he's so introverted. But in my experience those who tell you immediately: "You know, I'm such an introvert," are anything but, and you can rest assured that they're going to tell you everything that's on their mind.

Hitch-hiking is a situational stage for karmic expression and discovery. "Getting there" is simply an excuse for the opportunity to go below our cultural facades and come face-to-face with the realities of living.

A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

This is what being alive's all about, all those fucked up feelings. You've got to have them; when you stop, watch out.

People think it's all about misery and desperation and death and all that shite, which is not to be ignored, but what they forget is the pleasure of it. Otherwise we wouldn't do it. After all, we're not fucking stupid. At least, we're not that fucking stupid.

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

After 1789, politics ceased to be considered as the prudent management of men and circumstances, in order to become the 'realization of ideas'. Political thinking became irredeemably ideological: an imposition of ideas on political life rather than an emergence of policy from living experience.

In living this way, we discover new opportunities for comfort and enjoyment. Where the younger person may have tossed and turned throughout a sleepless night, the older man or woman can possibly feel the pleasure that comes from lying on a good mattress, resting one's weary bones and overcharged intellect, whether or not one sleeps throughout the hours of darkness.

On croit que j'imagine — ce n'est pas vrai — je me souviens. [They say I imagine — it is not true — I remember.]

You are only really in love once in your life, and that is the first time.

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough

A taste of luxury is part of the education of any intelligent human being. It teaches him how unnecessary it is.

Nothing so precious as memory, nothing so useless.

People think of education as something they can finish.