Quotes About Experience

What Disneyland proposes is a technique of abbreviated shorthand culture for the masses, a mindless thrill, like an electric shock, that insists at the same time on the recipient's rich psychic relation to his country's history and language and literature. In a forthcoming time of highly governed masses in an overpopulated world, this technique may be extremely useful both as a substitute for education and, eventually, as a substitute for experience.

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

The experience of experience is untransmittable.

I am thus led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative...A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.

Mi único trauma es la vida.

But the boy's eyes saw only the tracks made by the skaters, traces quickly erased of moments past, journeys taken.

Some people spend all their time on a vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence that they had a good time. They don't pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home.

He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as destination. Every voyage begins when you do.

Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it

There were times when the bad and the sad could have weighed me down. But to drink life from only the good is to taste only half of it.

The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.

I have such faith in words that when I read about such families as a child, I thought that they were the norm and that the way I lived was subnormal, waiting for normal.

Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. It's the same as going on a vacation. Some people spend all their time on a vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence that they had a good time. They don't pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home.

The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. It's the same as going on a vacation. Some people spend all their time on a vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence that they had a good time. They don't pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home." ? E. L. Konigsburg, From The Mixed Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

Perfect Tommy: Pictures don't lie. Reno: The hell they don't. I met my first wife that way

Italy is a country every man should love once.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

Life is knowledge, livin it is Succes!

If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.