Quotes About Experience

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

A life without memory is no life at all

Terminó la niñez y caí en el mundo.

Se há um momento mágico em qualquer viagem é aquele em que se sai do hotel para dar os primeiros passos numa cidade ainda desconhecida.

cada cual es un poco la historia de las habitaciones que lo han cobijado y de los ruidos que se ha acostumbrado a escuchar.

Tengo muchos años... soy una torre en ruinas, habitada por murciélagos y lechuzas. A esta edad, y aun mucho antes, el destino se hace portátil y uno carga con él como con un ingenio ortopédico.

La poesía es sobre todo el naufragio feliz de la memoria.

siempre lo que sucede en la realidad es más impresionante de lo que uno cree de lo que uno se imagina que pueda ser

que a uno le pasan las cosas que le tienen que pasar

A depressão apaga a lembrança remota, tem memória curta, acentua a dor recente, quase desprezando qualquer traço de história

Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.

It's just that you reach a point where metaphors become indistinguishable from the things they represent. And the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. And it feels like being born

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

Any profession of faith…entrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived.

Thinking about how a form can be organized as a conversation instead of an interrogation can go a long way toward making new customers feel welcome.

Great knowledge brings great sorrow.

The first time you buy a house you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.

The devil and temptations also afford us occasion to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without these we should never understand them, however diligently we read and listened to them.

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.

Os meus olhos deviam ter a mesma expressão nos últimos anos, mas nunca notei. Bem que me olhava no espelho para ver que cara a pessoa tem quando sofre muito, mas era sempre o meu rosto. Cada vez mais achava que devia ter mudado muito, não se podia ser a mesma depois de tanta coisa, de tanta dor. Contudo, era eu.

A vida não tece apenas uma teia de perdas, mas nos proporciona uma sucessão de ganhos.

Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos.

Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or successfully imitated. But you can dance and dream again. You must, if life is to continue.

We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That narrative feels deeply natural to me. We also hang on to scraps of dialogue. Our memories don't usually serve us up whole scenes complete with dialogue. So I suppose I'm saying that I like to work from what a character is likely to remember, from a more interior place.