Quotes About Experience

I just don't understand life,' sulked Nora. 'You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it.

It's dull. It's the dullest life you can imagine. Here, you have pain, and loss, that's the price. But the rewards can be wonderful, Gulliver.

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. Sylvia Plath

And death only happens to people who have been living. There were infinitely more people who had never been alive. I wanted to be one of those people.

Life is "understood backward; but it must be lived forward" (Søren Kierkegaard)

can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life.

can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. Sylvia Plath 'Between life and death there is a library,' she said.

there are millions going through an equivalent experience at any one time.

it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can't have one without the other.

You are the library card.

Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all" ? Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

Life is not a ladder to climb a puzzle to solve a key to find a destination to reach a problem to fix

Right then, I found a strange but real comfort in the pain.

Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live

We don't have to play every game to know what winning feels like. We don't have to hear every piece of music in the world to understand music. We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter

Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just . . .' She searched for the appropriate word and found it. 'A load of bullshit .

La única manera de aprender es vivir.

Well, what would you say if I said that I have visited my other lives, and I think I have chosen this one?' 'I would think you were insane. But I'd still like you.' 'Well, I have. I have had many lives.' He smiled. 'Great. Is there one where you kiss me again?' 'There is one where you buried my dead cat.' He laughed. 'That's so cool, Nor. The thing I like about you is that you always make me feel normal' And that was it.

But it is sometimes more fun to explore than to know. And you might find that you love the voyage in all its stumbling uncertainty.

mean, it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness. And that sadness

We are shaped more by our failures than our successes (paraphrase)

But these are other lives. Other variants of me. Not me me.' 'Yes, but while you are experiencing them, it is you who has to pay the consequences.

After all, we aren't just who we are born. We are who we become. We are what life does to us.