Quotes About Experience

What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test.

The future cannot be determined. I can only be experienced as it is occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.

That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations

Well, you're young. You know a whole lot you won't know later on." ~ Christie Logan

I stepped inside the front hall and kicked off my snow boots. I slammed the door behind me, making the dark ruby and emerald glass shake in the small leaded panes. I slid purposely on the hall rug, causing it to bunch and crinkle on the slippery polished oak of the floor.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.

These were true things, Laura knew, but they were only part of the truth which was something less orderly than Kate made it sound. Some parts of the full, disorderly truth were lodged in Kate and Laura like splinters of corroding steel. Their feelings had grown around the sharp, wounding edges which didn't hurt anymore but were still there, fossils of pain laid down in the mixed-up strata of memory.

Ci sono cose. Piccole cose che non dimenticherò, che sono niente e invece restano più forti di tutto.

Persone benefiche che incontri per caso e ti viene voglia di abbracciare, perché ti sorridono dal fondo della loro esperienza umana e di colpo ti risarciscono dell'altra metà del mondo, quella accasciante delle persone rinserrate nella loro pozza di buio.

I'll never know how many men loved her before me, but I know that each of them, whether he was good to her or wrong, did his part in shaping her, making her what she is.

Margaret Mazzantini

Life without tears is like goulash without paprika.

You have a low opinion of yourself, Helen." "I wasn't born with it." "Where did you get it?" 'The story" she said, "is too long to tell, and too dull to listen to.

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

I am not just what I remember. I am also what I dream.

A ssure you, the more I travel through time, the more I witness, the more I realize that there are things that are both strange and wonderful, far beyond human comprehension.

In general, more nonsense was written about the so-called 'feminine factor' during my time in office than about almost anything else. I was always asked how it felt to be a woman Prime Minister. I would reply: 'I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

those who were born at the depths of one great crisis who would be able to cope with the next.

Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.

In Athol Fugard's play, The Island, an African eats an orange whole; at the play's opening night in London, the audience sat coolly through the nude scenes on stage, but there were gasps of horror at the sight of a man enjoying a whole unpeeled orange.