Quotes About Experience

You looked like you knew a thing or two, she told me later. But were ready to learn a lot more.

She was the one who showed me all the dark wonders of life, the real life, the life I'd only seen flickering from the corner of my eye. Did I ever feel anything at all until she showed me what feeling meant? Pushing at the corners of her cramped world with curled fists, she showed me what it meant to live.

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.

I did not know how to say that, nor how to tell Goldie that I had not lived the life she obviously thought I had.

Maybe being an adult wasn't crossing some arbitrary age line into wisdom. Maybe it was like anything else - training wheels and mistakes, trial and error, and now and again that feeling that you might have wings.

I've never been a big believer in formal education.

Memory can refuse to let you forget what you'd like to and run away with what you want to remember. It's an unreliable bitch, or your best friend. Sometimes, it's both at once.

One must have sorrow to truly appreciate joy.

This is the truth. I have been in love. I have been in lust. I've made good choices and bad ones, I have been smart and I've been stupid. But I have never in my life felt the way I do now, here, with Will.

He closed his hand around my wrist and pressed my hand flat against his chest. "The way I see it, Elle, scars are proof we can survive.

No. It was the best mistake I ever made.

Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for. —Ann Patchett, from the essay The Sense of an Ending

I have suffered the touch of some and embraced it from others.

You learn more from the things that end.

?simyl?jimai niekada neb?na vienodi. Jeigu esi palaimintas - arba prakeiktas - patirti š? jausm? daugiau negu vien? kart?, kiekvien? syk? b?na kitaip. Myl?dama niekada tuo neabejojau - meil? visada tikra, net jeigu trunka tik trump? akimirk?.

she experienced through music "the highest moments of a contemplative kind," when "I seemed to see the relations of things . . . and my soul was rapt to enthusiasm to live & be what I ought.

The higher my GPA gets the more I realize high school is useless

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

When I'm at school in the city, I don't feel particularly worldly or wise. It's only when I come back home that I remember exactly why I left.

Why is it that the most fundamental life lesson—LIVE!—is the only one I continually forget to put into practice?

I am trying to come up with some "adult" reads, but I mostly read young adult fiction (my job), which, by the way is excellent. I will post about some of my favorites that should appeal to adult readers

I didn't know anything about anything. And the only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to, but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I've yet to learn.

In theory, you're supposed to get everyone's names and become lifelong friends. I literally had contact with half the kids here last night, but how in hell do they expect me to differentiate one of my butt-to-butt dancing partners from another? Am I supposed to randomly rub my buttocks up against people to see if we've bonded booties before? "Yes, the particular musculature of your ass does feel familiar. 1 remember you now!" Duh.

We're all affected by life's random outbreaks of beauty and brutality