Quotes About Experience

Getting your heart broken is the privilege of being human, Eden used to say. I didn't know what

I never travelled," I told her. "Oh, you absolutely should," she insisted, "if only so that you can come home and really see it for what it is. That's my favourite part.

I can't expect him to be as tuned in to Cameron's vulnerabilities as I am. He's never been a throwaway kid. Never experienced the world in a woman's body, or a girl's. Never had a reason to confuse love with suffering.

I close my eyes an lean into Ernest, smelling bourbon and soap, tobacco and damp cotton - and everything about this moment is so sharp and lovely, I do something completely out of character and just let myself have it.

I was thinking about how I had struggled and strained for years, as Karen had, and toward things that were disastrous for me. And maybe that was unavoidable. The pilgrims and the lost often did look the same, as Denys had once told me. And it was possible everyone ended up in the same place no matter which path we took or how often we fell to our knees, undoubtedly wiser for all of it.

Did you ever think it could be like this? The way we're happening to each other?

everything about this moment is so sharp and lovely, I do something completely out of character and just let myself have it.

This is why tourists come to wine country, not just to get tipsy from tiny pours of Cabernet Sauvignon, but to be inside this world, where every surface mirrors back the sun.

My mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.

If you want to know real joy in life, then be willing to let pain tutor your soul.

It's alot harder than you'd think to scar a kid for life.

Guys are like dogs. You wish you could take them all home when they're young. But after they've howled all night and slobbered all over everything, you come to realize the ones already trained are much easier to live with.

Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.

All he had was the story of his life, which was as good as any other man's, and in the end it is all we have.

as they drifted they had gathered trouble and a great deal of peculiar knowledge about human beings, what human beings would do or say under extreme duress. It was not something you could do anything with but it interested them all the same.

La familia que existe en la cabeza de las personas es más importante que la que se registra en su libreta de tomador del censo...La experiencia de la inmigración proporciona una visión especial sobre cómo las personas aprenden a prescindir de aquello a que estaban acostumbradas para poder adoptar lo nuevo.

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.

Life is a journey not a destination, so journey it!

Sounds beyond the limits of the ear may be gathered by other sensory systems of the body.

I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.

I know how it works, Esther. I graduated from Harvard." "Book-smart, but life-stupid," said Esther.

Tania." Her voice was soothing. "There is a second love. And a third love. And if you're lucky, a fourth and a fifth, too.

It wasn't first love. It wasn't a first kiss. But it was love nonetheless. And the kiss was sweet. And the heart still pounded. And the girl went on.

Cuando se vive mucho tiempo, se aprenden muchas cosas