Quotes About Experience

For with the perturbations of memory are linked the intermittencies of the heart.

La muraille de l'escalier où je vis monter le reflet de sa bougie n'existe plus depuis longtemps. En moi aussi bien des choses ont été détruites que je croyais devoir durer toujours, et de nouvelles se sont édifiées, donnant naissance à des peines et à des joies nouvelles que je n'aurais pu prévoir alors, de même que les anciennes me sont devenues difficiles à comprendre.

Even when one is no longer interested in things, it is still something to have been interested in them; because it was always for reasons which other people did not grasp. The memory of those sentiments is, we feel, to be found only in ourselves; we must go back into ourselves to study it.

Marcel retrospectively remembers moments of anxious anticipation just as he imagines in advance moments when he will have forgotten what he is now feeling. For in fact we negotiate with the memory of our emotions, as much as, if not more than, with our raw emotions themselves.

Y, a partir de aquel instante, yo no tenía que dar ni un solo paso, el suelo caminaba por mí en aquel jardín

But if no reply came from Morel, he could no longer sleep, he no longer knew a moment's peace of mind, so many in number, indeed, are the things that we experience without knowing them, and the profound inner realities that remain hidden from us.

la tía Lala decía que ella

No será, Camila, que al fin y al cabo el sentido de la vida es vivirla? No creo mucho en las respuestas filosóficas: todo se resume en vivirla entera y vivirla bien.

Conocer sus historias la ayudará a ser mujer. Eso sí, le pediré que no se identifique solamente con una, porque puede ser fuente de impensables dolores.

but often discovering that the recipe had to be wholly reshaped to make room for the perceptions and experiences gained in the intervening years of cooking and teaching.

No es cuánto vivimos: supongo que en gran parte es cómo vivimos cada momento. Cada hora. Cada día".

But you have to have been on the downside looking up at the face of the law before you realize how thin those defenses really are. Once you've been there, you can't honestly begrudge a defendant any help he can muster. That

We define learning as the transformative process of taking in information that, when internalized and mixed with what we have experienced, changes what we know and builds on what we can do. It's based on input, process, and reflection. It is what changes us.

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

El dolor es mejor maestro que el placer.

Saber es una cosa y sentir es otra muy distinta.

Vas a vivir siempre joven, según la teoría de Denevi. Decime, ¿sabés quién es Marco Denevi?

I have not told the half of what I saw.

I did not tell half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

You will hear it for yourself, and it will surely fill you with wonder.

I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.

The act of dying is also one of the acts of life.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.