Quotes About Experience

It felt like a first date. Vega had never been on a first date. She could not remember sleeping with someone she hadn't been in a fistfight with first.

Cap parked and got out. It was hot but not humid, and it was glorious. Hot but not humid . Did everyone on the East Coast know about this?

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!

I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.

Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

A reasonable amount of danger is part of the price of living.

Adventure, free of actual risk, is hard to produce.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience...

THERE IS MORE TO THIS THING OF LOVE THAN MEETS THE EYE. I AM GOING TO HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THIS A GREAT DEAL BUT I DON'T THINK IT WILL GET ME ANYWHERE. I THINK MAYBE THEY'RE ALL RIGHT WHEN THEY SAY THERE ARE DOME THINGS I WON'T KNOW ABOUT UNTIL I'M OLDER.

Harriet: Is it fun being married? Ole Golly: How should I know? I've never been married. However, I doubt it's all fun. Nothing ever is, you know.

Safe Deposit I thought that I could keep it? the light on the running tide, how your eyes give you away no matter what you hide. I thought that I could hold it? the forest along the sand, your neck bones like pearls underneath my hand. But time's school has taught me how petals brown and die. There's no saving pleasure. Don't try. Don't try.

When you watch an accomplished professional in any field, you are looking at innumerable hours of practice.

Every Experience is a Success.

This is the only moment we can experience.

We all have lessons to learn. The things that are so difficult for us are only the lessons we have chosen for ourselves. If things are easy for us, then they are not lessons, but are things we already know.

1. We are each responsible for our experiences. 2. Every thought we think is creating our future. 3. Everyone is dealing with the damaging patterns of resentment, criticism, guilt, and self-hatred. 4. These are only thoughts, and thoughts can be changed. 5. We need to release the past and forgive everyone. 6. Self-approval and self-acceptance in the "now" are the keys to positive change. 7. The point of power is always in the present moment.

The past only exists in our minds and in the way we choose to look at it in our minds.

For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it. The need corresponds to some belief we have. If there were not a need, we wouldn't have it, do it, or be it. There is something within us that needs the fat, the poor relationships, the failures, the cigarettes, the anger, the poverty, the abuse, or whatever there is that's a problem for us.

Our lives become more peaceful when we stop interpreting everything that happens to us, and instead, experience everything that happens to us—no matter what its appearance—as a blessing in disguise. When we walk our pathway in life with a "Thank you" in our hearts, a "Thank you" in our minds, and a "Thank you" on our lips, whatever fear we may have been holding on to disappears, and the purity of love reappears.

I am saying to acknowledge the "power within you" that transforms our every thought into experience.

Your point of power is in the present moment and is forming the experience of tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, and so on.

Sorrow is wisdom, the poet said.