Quotes About Experience

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Love can sweep you off your feet and carry you along in a way you've never known before. But the ride always ends, and you end up feeling lonely and bitter. Wait. It's not love I'm describing. I'm thinking of a monorail.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love is our first.

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Love is a deep well from which you may drink often, but into which you may fall but once

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.