Quotes About Experience

An emotional sort. As if there is any other kind of human.

Nothing in life unfolds the way you think it will, does it?

An emotional sort. As if there were any other kind of human. Show me an unemotional sort and I'll show you someone dangerous. How can emotion be avoided when life careens in its unexpected directions?

Una persona joven no puede conocer su vida, lo que será o cómo se desarrollará. Al crecer, adquieres la sensación de que las dificultades se limitan a momentos concretos en el tiempo, de que pasarán. Sin embargo, cuando eres joven, un único instante parece el mundo entero. Lo sientes permanente. Años después, pasaría a vivir una vida mejor. Viajaría por el mundo. Pero aquel invierno era apenas una niña.

Acaso no conoces sucesos que te conciernen, pero de los que no fuiste testigo? ¿No te encuentras, a veces, contándolos? Hay muchas cosas que recordamos que nunca hemos visto con nuestros propios ojos ni vivido con nuestros propios cuerpos. Es una simple cuestión de encajar lo que sabemos, lo que nos han contado y lo que imaginamos. No es muy diferente a cómo un investigador reúne las respuestas a un crimen.

A young person can't know her life, what it will be or how it will unfold. When you grow older, you gain a sense that hardships occupy particular moments in time, which by and by will pass. But when you're young, a single moment seems like the whole world. It feels permanent.

It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.

Watching movies today is a passive experience, and there is little demand on the viewer's imagination.

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

Old age is woman's hell.

It is this clash between desire and fear that causes anger, which is the great destroyer of sanity in life. When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down, and both become experience - painful when resisted, joyful when accepted.

Once you can say with confidence born from direct experience, "I am the world, the world is myself," you are free from desire and fear on one hand and become totally responsible for the world on the other.

I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.

Desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is the choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing - food, sex, power, fame - will make you happy is to deceive yourself. Only something as vast and deep as your real self can make you truly and lastingly happy.

On the verbal level everything is relative. Absolutes should be experienced, not discussed.

Life's not easy, try romancing with it.

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.

You can't impart what you don't possess.

experienced," Rob J. said.

Everyone is from someplace. We all have stories, our lives unfolding along crooked lines, colliding in unexpected ways.

It is the job of the human brain to assemble all the input of our world—sights, sounds, smells—into a coherent narrative. This is what memory is, a carefully calibrated story that we make up about our past.

Because what if instead of a story told in consecutive order, life is a cacophony of moments we never leave?