Quotes About Experience

a thousand songs that made people bite their lips and bob their heads, recalling a place they once lived, a person they once loved, a version of themselves they'd forgotten.

I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea.

And so, like a courtesan, forced to perform the dance of the seven veils, I grudgingly reveal the names, one by one, of the cities that have carved their names into me, leaving behind the scar tissue that forms the bulk of who I am.

Whitley Strieber, who wrote about his own abduction in the book Communion.

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

All writing is about the same thing - it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration it creates

I'm rambling again. Wandering off the point. But this is the true story of my wasted life...

Books are like candy some can be sweet some can be sour, but no you cannot eat them

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.

It's not about the destination. It's getting there that's the good part. - Leonard

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

You can find joy in practically any situation if you are open to the experience of happiness.

I've experienced increased insecurity because of my increased vulnerability to illness.

There is no forced retirement from aging creatively.

Love denied, and the somatic experience of that denial, is?as de Rougemont recognized?the hidden, and gnostic/heretical, thread of Western History.

See? Memories aren't happy, they're sad. Don't you know anything?

It is sometimes better to be content with a small, sour apple than to eat strange fruits in an alien country.

A nadie —contestó Rossini—. Todos llevamos demasiada historia a nuestras espaldas, y la historia modifica todo lo que hacemos o decimos. El Santo Padre viajó a París para saludar a los jóvenes. Grandiosas manifestaciones

Because I am a man, I have experience f fear, love and death Because I have been, like you, a political an, I understand the usages of power and its limitations, to! Because I am a Minister of the Word, I know that I am peddling a folly in the market place and that I risk to be stoned for it. You, too, my friends are peddling follies - monstrous insanities - and all of us rish to perish by them!

You haven't lived until you've died in California

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for the same purpose. Art teaches nothing about life, just as life teaches us nothing about art.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.