Quotes About Experience

When I look through Bob, the actual stories between his mottled covers may have been written by others, but they belong to me now. Nobody else on the planet has read this particular series of books in this exact order and been affected in precisely this way. Each of us could say the same about our respective reading trajectories. Even if we don't keep a physical Book of Books, we all hold our books somewhere inside us and live by them. They become our stories.

Books are how cautious kids get to experience a kind of secondhand rebellion, a safe way to go off the rails.

Every woman should have a youth she's content to leave behind and a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to telling it in her old age

Nu sunt obi?nuit s? privesc via?a ca pe o iesle ?i o cresc?torie

This is also why Anglo-American achievements cannot be seen in isolation from their ambiguous consequences and victims elsewhere; why many Anglo-American assumptions, derived from a unique and unrepeatable historical experience, are an unreliable guide to today's chaos, especially as it infects Anglo-America.

I was to see Helen again, in another place and time. But now I was settling into my new self – the self that had travelled and imagined that it had learnt much. I didn't know then that I would use up many more such selves, that they would arise and disappear, making all experience hard to fix and difficult to learn from.

I viaggi che riescono meglio sono quelli che non si fa a tempo a preparare. Quelli che si affrontano senza una zavorra di libri. In leggerezza. Portandosi dietro nient'altro che l'esperienza dei nomadismi precedenti." – Trans Europa Express –

Forse la percezione del mondo non dipende dai luoghi, ma dall'andatura. Se vai lento, ovunque tu sia nella fascia temperata del Globo, le tue notti si popoleranno di grilli, belati, fumo di legno, erbe aromatiche, stelle. D'inverno ti addormenterai circondato di luce lunare fredda, odore di lana infeltrita e letame, tè bollenti e sogni caldi, quelli dove le persone hanno odore e sapore. In una parola, la vita.

Il libro è come il padre: ti svezza, ti irrobustisce, ti fa crescere dentro la curiosità del mondo ma è anche una trappola che ti spinge ad accontentarti delle meraviglie che contiene. Per partire devi a volte rinnegare il padre, perché non puoi affrontare il mondo col suo peso sulle spalle.

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Let us repeat. The memory of the present is juxtaposed to the perception of the present.

For who could be taught the knowledge of experience from paper? Since paper has the property to produce lazy and sleepy people, who are haughty and learn to persuade themselves and to fl y without wings. . . . Therefore the most fundamental thing is to hasten to experience.

You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained.

Never regret anything, because at one time it was exactly what you wanted. MARILYN MONROE

I had to kill or be killed... It was the only way I could survive... But I never enjoyed it like YOU do. Yes, my EYE is different from yours... But never forget... I'm also human.

I've learned and unlearned all my life; it's helped me to survive. There are no constants, nothing is immutable, only random circumstance from which our experience builds a coherent arc of life. And for that arc you have only to be truly done with one thing before moving to another. There's an art in letting go.

Love and hell are alike in that respect; they are what you bring to them. The script is yours; only the props are furnished.

You go through it like a dark room, you sweat, you fear, the fear passes, you come out of it and utter nothing but meaningless words about what you saw or felt.

Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching's great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get back on the dance floor. It is the dance of the spiraling generations, in which the old empower the young with their experience and the young empower the old with new life, reweaving the fabric of the human community as they touch and turn.

We find common bonds in the shared details of the human journey, not in the divergent conclusions we draw from those details.

Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching's great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get back on the dance floor. It is the dance of the spiraling generations, in which the old empower the young with their experience and the young empower the old with new life, reweaving the fabric of the human community as they touch and turn.

In a prose passage on a life in art—without explanation or elaboration, as if the idea had just popped into his head and he had to capture it before it fled—Thoreau drops this simple couplet: My life has been the poem I would have writ But I could not both live and utter it.

Way has never opened in front of me…but a lot of way has closed behind me, and that has had the same guiding effect.

Experience alone opens a door, but intellectual framing and reflection are required if meaning is to be made of the experience.