Quotes About Experience

nothing—nothing—affects our experience except how we flow our energy. NOTHING!!!

She looked at him gravely. "You cannot call back the river that has already flowed past you, Ruith. All you can do is be grateful for where you are in it.

I know it feels as though your heart is breaking into a million little pieces, but I swear to you it's not. It's merely bruised, and although this seems like the end of the world, it's only infatuation. Trust me, my dear, I speak from experience: It cannot be love if it's not returned. It's something else and it's just as painful, but it's not love and you will get through it

I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.

The man of many shifts, who wandered far and wide, And towns of many saw, and learned their mind; And suffered much in heart by land and sea, Passing through wars of men and grievous waves.

For that reason, trusting men had never come naturally to Kat, which was why she was still a virgin at thirty-five.

Ed Murrow]would remark during a BBC broadcast: "It is difficult to explain the meaning of cold to people who are warm, the meaning of privation to people who have wanted only for luxuries...It is almost impossible to substitute intelligence for experience.

There was no bombing of the U.S. mainland, no civilian casualties, no destruction of millions of homes. Indeed, while the standard of living plummeted for the vast majority of Britons during the war, many if not most Americans lived better than ever before.

For [people] who have never experienced sudden, total defeat and the almost overnight disappearance of their political elites; who have never lived under foreign occupation; who do not know what Nazi pressure meant; who have never had to worry first and last about food and physical survival…the warning must be heeded: do not judge too harshly.

and one who has not lived through it could never believe what happened.

A good story makes a journey go by more quickly. A really good story makes you forget you are even on a journey.

I tried to think whether I had ever had a great adventure. I decided that I had. It's all in how you look at it.

Good-bye, ocean," said Alix. "This was the best time I ever had." "You always say that," said Jools. "It's always true," said Alix.

Step and land, step and land. That's all travel was. Throw in some running and a change of scenery. No big deal, right? And so, off he went. Off they went together.

Over and over and over, Mom and Dad towed them out, turned them around, then let go. The water whooshed them back to shore. The hot sun above, the cold water beneath: it was a feeling you could never get tired of.

I'm no connoisseur of wines, but I know what's bad.

If the ending is messy, one doesn't remember anything good about any of it.

I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

How did she do it, I'd always wondered. Dancing with Q., I understood. Once in a while the pain falls asleep on the job, and the experienced sufferer knows enough to seize such moments swiftly and without thought - for when we realize we're actually dancing, the jolt of joy wakens the pain. Laura Acosta

Once history holds your hand, it never lets go. But it has an anxious grip and takes you places you couldn't expect.

Reality disappoints regularly. When people are supposed to have fun, it's likely they won't, because fun can't live up to its image. Does anything live up to its image?

Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.

Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful.