Quotes About Experience

Let me tell you, if you have never seen an agitated squirrel you have seen very little, nor have you heard much, because the sound of an angry squirrel is not to be forgotten.

That first loving kiss, the one that comes out of you from the source of your personal river, and the one that comes from her that is the same, there's never another moment like it; never another flame that burns so hot. It can never be that good again, ever. All manner of goodness can come after, but it's different. And that's a good thing, because if we burned that hot for too long, we'd be nothing but ash.

The love of Christ is insatiable. The more you experience His redeeming love, the more you desire it. The more you desire it, the more you want to dwell on it. The more you dwell on it, the more you cherish it and are satisfied by it. You can never 'mind' Christ's love too often, since his love knows no bounds.

It can hardly be possible, that Nature should have given us a tongue, in order that the gratification of a few papillae on it should be the aim of a laborious life, or the cause of wretchedness to others.

I am not here to think, but to be, feel, live!...Heart! Warmth! Blood! Humanity! Life!

I tell them that in Finland the first thing men coming back from the front wanted was sex; only after that did they take their skis off.

The more we know the easier it is to survive. Knowledge dispels fear.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

this wasted time i have found by constant experience to be as indispensable as sleep.

The older friendships get, the newer they become.

Friendships are older than friends.

It's more dangerous to make friends when you're old than when you're young.

Your academic excellence and professional training cannot equate your knowledge of friendship.

How many people came and stayed a certain time, Uttered light or dark speech that became part of you Like light behind windblown fog and sand Filtered and influenced by it, until no part Remains that is surely you.

I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.

Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere else, including France.

We live our lives, made up of a great quantity of / isolated instants / So as to be lost at the heart of a multitude of things.

The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind that goes on in you without your having to do anything about it). . .

As he lay expiring in the agony of death, the standers-by could hear him say softly 'I have seen the glories of the world.

One day I'm going to use this experience in my memoirs [...]. Is when a famous person writes about their life and describes the bad stuff they went through. It's important to have enough bad stuff or it just seems like bragging, and no one likes that. So messing up today that's really helpful, because is shows that I'm human.

The trouble with you, Vic, he said, is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.

Time and age have brought not wisdom, as they are supposed to do, but confusion, and a broadening incomprehension, each year laying down another ring of nesience.

I am old now, or oldening ...

Adam senses a large weariness in him, the weariness of an old actor in the middle of a long run in an old part.