Quotes About Experience

Age iswisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.

Fünf Minuten im Garten Eden sind besser als ein ganzes Leben in der Hölle.

?ovjek i nije drugo nego posuda puna tu?ih ukusa i užitaka!

Slikati zvukove i mirise je nemogu?e, a slike su nezamislive u svoj savršenoj realizaciji bez zvukova i bez mirisa!

Jedina stvarala?ka stvarnost jesu isklju?ivo prvotna oskvrnu?a naših osjetila: ?ovjek vidi samo onda kad je nešto ugledao.

The world makes you, and then you see it through the eyes it gives you.

How many people had stood here, as she did now, puzzled, unhappy, numb with pain and perplexity? And how many had found comfort in the knowledge of the continuity of life, of being but one link in a long chain of human experience, in this old, old setting?

The worst of getting old,' said Winnie, 'is the time one has to spend in patching oneself up.

She could only pass on to them the philosophy which sustained her throughout her life. She could teach them to face whatever came with calmness and courage, to love their families and their friends with unswerving loyalty, and to relish the lovely face of the countryside in which they lived. It might seem a humdrum, day-to-day set of values, but Dolly Clare knew from long experience that they could carry a man bravely through a lifetime's vicissitudes.

Where am I from? Can the answer be stories and words, some of theirs, some of mine?

pen. Where am I from? Can the answer be stories and words, some of theirs, some of mine?

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.

É como se ela tivesse nascido para sentir e experimentar o mundo de forma mais intensa do que todos nós.

When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

You know, 'The Golden Girls' was a very unusual show to start on. I was young, and it was a show about old people, and it was a very traditional show, but it was also an amazing training ground for a joke-writer. It forced me to learn those skills.

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

The memory was so vivid that, like a fresh scab, he was sure he would start to bleed if he picked at it.

Even now, years later, that day stood out in his memory like a shining piece of colored glass in a sea of mud.

It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade.

People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.

A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.