Quotes About Experience

See you tomorrow," he said, instead. "All right." Then, impulsively, I asked, "Do you have a place to sleep tonight?" "Sure," he said with a smile, and started off as if he had somewhere to be. I could have bitten off my tongue because I pushed him into a lie. Once he started lying to me, it would be harder to get him to trust me with the truth. I don't know why it works that way, but it does—at least in my experience.

Fear is a good thing. It teaches you not to make the same mistake twice. You counter it with knowledge. - Bran

Take happiness where you can," he said. "It seldom lasts—'course, neither does sorrow, right?

Leslie absorbed that. "If that's so, I peg our Anna at sixteen and her husband at ten thousand and change.

By the time a person was my age, they should know that life isn't fair and quit pretending that it ought to be.

But coincidences, in Charles's experience, were as rare as hen's teeth.

O medo é uma coisa boa. Ensina-te a não cometeres o mesmo erro duas vezes. É combatido através do conhecimento.

English is not my first, nor even my fifth, language. Did you say 'a vampire friend'?

Whether those lives are a couple of decades or a couple of centuries long, living means that we get hurt, and some of those wounds don't heal or they don't heal completely.

There was a kind of special-hell dimension that existed only when boredom and terror combined, because numbness never quite settles.

only a fool asks Grandpa Gordon anything: He just might answer.

already knew the ending, I didn't feel

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

In the experience is the emotion. In the emotion is the gift.

Perfect happiness is good for one's soul. It is wonderful for one's temper. However, in my experience, it tends to impair one's wits.

Denial and avoidance are classic abusive behaviors. They're what the abuser is doing when he trivializes and counters his partner's experience

Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into the starscape of history's night. The materials of memoir are humble, fugitive, a cottage knitting industry seeking narrative truth across the crevasse of time as autobiography folds itself into the vast, fluid essay that is history. A single voice singing its aria in a corner of the crowded world.

Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.

Nancy White, a Black inner-city resident, explores the connection between experience and beliefs: Now, I understand all these things from living. But you can't lay up on these flowery beds of ease and think that you are running your life, too.

The mind of the man and the mind of the woman is the same, but this business of living makes women use their minds in ways that men don't even have to think about.

An oppressed group's experiences may put its members in a position to see things differently, but their lack of control over the ideological apparatuses of society makes expressing a self-defined standpoint more difficult.

Sometimes when we anticipate meeting with someone who is difficult to work with, a tape starts playing in our heads. "Why do I have to have another meeting with this person? I'll just try to get through it." These kinds of thoughts will likely lead to a self fulfilling prophecy of an unproductive and painful experience.

How can she learn if you don't give her the chance to experience what she can do?

Life is not a straight line, she said. And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever.