Quotes About Experience

I have always been a lover of the sun, even if, through spending a lifetime in Ireland, I have had little personal connection with it.

Pavel is not a doctor any more, Bruno' said Maria quietly. 'But he was. In another life. Before he came here

The history that one can create with a friend, a lifetime of history and shared experience, is a wonderful thing and shabbily sacrificed. And yet a true friend is a rare thing; sometimes those whom we perceive as friends are simply people with whom we spend a lot of time.

no man with any sense should marry the girl to whom he loses his virginity. It's like learning to drive in some clapped-out old banger and then holding on to it for the rest of your life when you've developed the skill to handle a BMW in rush-hour traffic on a busy Autobahn.

I think this was a bad idea,' he repeated. 'I think the best thing to do would be to forget all about this and just go back home. We can chalk it up to experience

Hay veces en que le envidio su juventud, pero trato de no pensar mucho en eso. Un anciano no debe tener celos de aquellos que vienen a ocupar su puesto, y recordar el tiempo en que era joven, sano y viril es un acto de masoquismo que no sirve de nada.

before we learn to feel afraid of things, our bodies know how to do them anyway. It's one of the more disappointing aspects of growing older. We fear more so we can do less.

Well, I'm not advocating it," I said. "I just mean that before we learn to feel afraid of things, our bodies know how to do them anyway. It's one of the more disappointing aspects of growing older. We fear more so we can do less.

What you know about women,' replied Maude, 'could be written in large font on the back of a postage stamp and there'd still be room for the Lord's Prayer. For all your great flirtations and seductions, for all your tarts, whores, girlfriends and wives, you've really learned nothing about us over the years, have you?

I've seen all those movies, of course. Schindler's List, The Pianist, Sophie's Choice. And I've watched a few documentaries and read a few books. But you don't really get a sense of it until you're actually there, do you? Have you ever been, Mrs F.?' I said nothing.

Odran, you may never believe anything I tell you again, but believe this: you have no idea what you're talking about. None. You don't have the first concept of what my childhood was like. Of all the things that happened to me in the years before I arrived at Clonliffe. None.' 'And I don't want to know, I told him. 'Nothing that happened to you back then makes anything that you did acceptable. It doesn't justify anything. Can't you see that?

What I would not have given to be that young at this time and to be able to experience such unashamed honesty.

Remember, my young friend, life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practise.' He winked at me. 'Forster.

La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia

I went to Poland once, actually,' said Eleanor, pushing her plate aside now, having eaten no more than half the food upon it. 'As part of a school trip. They took us to Kraków for three days and, on the middle day, we visited Auschwitz.

The suggestion, however, regarding my age – that I am perhaps not quite fifty years old – would flatter me immensely. For it is many years now since I have been able to say in all honesty that I have only seen half a century. This is simply the age, or at least the visual representation of an age, at which I have been stuck for a large proportion of my 256 years of life. I am an old man.

A vida é fácil de narrar, mas atordoante de se praticar. Uma História de Solidão

I'm 25 admitted the ghost. But I feel much older How old do you feel? Ancient, sometimes. Like, 30

Toxic shame results from the unexpected exposure of vulnerable aspects of a child's self. This exposure takes place before the child has any ego boundaries to protect herself. Early shaming events happen in a context where the child has no ability to choose. The felt experience of shame is being exposed and seen when one is not ready to be seen.

The tremendous effectiveness of change history was discovered by paying attention to how people can distort their internally generated experience and then act on the distortion, forgetting that they created it in the first place.

Any time a new experience resembles the earlier traumatic experience, the original emotions are triggered and the original anchor is fired.

the plight of being old: clearly recalling what it was like to act voluntarily and enjoy life as it came, now trapped in a frame that forbade anything except slow cautious movements

But let none, he added, pray to have the full music; for it will make him who hears it a footsore traveller in

I made a fine tramp and a fair drover;