Quotes About Experience

May you never forget what is worth remembering, nor ever remember what is best forgotten.

S)cents connects us to a past we can't always see, that seems lost but can so easily be conjured up and found.

Did you have a love that grand?" I asked him. No. I never did. Did you? "No, and I wouldn't want to. It would be too painful if it failed." But to experience it once—even if it is painful—don't you think it would be worth it? Wouldn't you want to know what that kind of intensity is like? Wouldn't you want to feel that deeply? "I don't think most people can. Not the way I imagine it.

There are some who believe that the mind is a blank tablet, on which experience is writ until the page be full, and the cryptic world is known; but I see rather that my own life hath been one long forgetting, the erasure of what was drawn, a terrible redaction; til all that remains is blank white and comfortless. I know not what we have been; I know not what we are; but I know what we might be. And so I light out for the unknown regions.

Because we ain't anything more than a name and some likes and some distastes and a story we tell about ourselves.

I could still smell the hospital in my nose. It wasn't anything around me. It was her. I stopped breathing, but the smell was still there. I held my breath.

I always thought you were someone things happened to." "What sorts of things?" "You know. I thought you led a life of risk and adventure." She shrugged. "Here's what I know: People will think that, if you have a certain kind of hair.

Almost nothing lives here anymore, except where we plant it? No. No, no, no. We don't know any of that. We have tea parties with our teddies. We go sledding. We enjoy being young. We take what's coming to us. That's our way.

It is as if there is no syntax, no grammar, that can contain their suffering. Only a list of things perceived.

I'm electric with vertigo, even though I'm on the ground, vertigo like I felt once when I stood on the edge of a high cliff in Arizona and looked straight down.

I want to do the things that show you're alive. I want to eat huge meals with wine. I want to go to the zoo with you.

De kunst is fraaier dan de werkelijkheid, maar beide leggen het af tegen de herinnering.

Na een paar maanden constateert hij [Goethe] dat het hem zwaar valt rekenschap af te leggen van zijn verblijf, want - zo noteert hij op 25 januari 1787 - 'zoals men merkt dat de zee steeds dieper wordt naarmate men haar verder opvaart, zo vergaat het ook mij bij het beschouwen van deze stad'. Zich Rome werkelijk toe-eigenen vergt een mensenleven - zo verzucht de auteur enkele maanden later - 'of zelfs het leven van vele mensen, die stap voor stap van elkaar leren.

Far too many companies are focused on the product and not the experience. We need to replace our brain with our heart, because that's often how people make decisions. Studies have proven that the essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action and reason leads to conclusions.

How short lived knowledge is. When I was 20 I knew it all: now at 70 I can't understand a thing

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

Historie se žije dopÃ…â"¢edu, ale píÅ¡e dozadu.

Robert Frost: "Now when I am old my teachers are the young.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.

She said the music made her wonder, Does it alter us more to be heard, or to hear?

The concerto's beauty was even more impassioned than he remembered, and also more piteous and quiet and restrained, and he clasped his hands together to absorb both the grief and joy in his body.