Quotes About Experience

It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.

Human thoughts about things of which neither pure reasoning nor experience provides any knowledge may differ so radically that no agreement can be reached.

History cannot teach us any general rule, principle, or law. There is no means to abstract from a historical experience a posteriori any theories or theorems concerning human conduct and policies. The

In retrospect all fools become wise.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.

You can plan for something your whole life, and still get taken by surprise

Her hair is longer now, and fine lines bracket her mouth, parentheses around a lifetime of words I was not around to hear.

Just in case it... doesn't work. I want you to know, Delilah. You have been the biggest adventure of my life.

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

I was surprised that Kurt seemed to understand that you might never love someone as hard as you had the first time you'd fallen; I was even more surprised to learn that maybe you could.

So much time is spent with people superficially. You remember all the fun you had but nothing specific.

How can you ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling at rock bottom

I write because it's a way of puzzling out answers to situations in the world that I don't understand. The act of writing a book gives me the same experience that I hope reading it gives readers. It forces me to sort through the various points of view on a given issue or situation and ultimately come to a conclusion. Doing that might not change my mind, but it almost always gives me a stronger sense of why my opinion is what it is—a question we rarely ask ourselves.

Just so you know, I begin, when they say 'Once upon a time'... they're lying. It's not once upon a time. It's not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

It's no small feat, finishing a journey, I tell her. But no one ever mentions that once you get there, you will have to turn around and head all the way home.

The crisis might be what sticks in my mind, but the in-between moments are the ones I would not have missed for the world.

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.

Recollections are in the eye of the beholder. No two held side by side can ever quite match.

Maybe you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.

Danger came in different packages, at different points in a lifetime.

She is quiet for a moment. have you ever been swimming in the summer, she asks, when a cloud comes in front of the sun? You know how, for a few seconds, you're absolutely freezing in th water and you think you'd better get out and dry off? But then all of a sudden the sun's back out and you're warm again and when you tell people how much fun you had swimming you wouldn't even think to mention those clouds. Cara shrugs. That's what it's like, with my father. -Cara

The scenery you see when you're driving in a car is completely different from the scenery you'd see if you walked the same stretch of road. In the car you might see splashes of color; by foot, you'd realize they are butterflies.

And that's what I think love is...when your hindsight's twenty-twenty, and you still wouldn't change a thing.