Quotes About Experience

Every baby's the only in my observation of mothers.

Charlestonians had a particularly vicious and cunning game, developed after the War. They treated outsiders with so much graciousness and consideration that their politeness became a weapon. 'Visitors end up feeling as if they're wearing shoes for the first time in their lives. It's said that only the strongest ever recover from the experience. The Chinese never developed a torture to match it, although they're a very subtle people.

It's not about what you've done; it's how you've experienced whatever has happened to you. Matt Lawrence in The Overachievers

When a person quietly reconciles himself to all the contradictions that life offers, and can comfortably ride out or flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both, but getting stuck in neither, then he has achieved freedom.

It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

If you meet life squarely, you are likely to make mistakes, do things you wish you hadn't, say things you wish you could retract or phrase more felicitously, and, in short, fumble your way along. Those "mature" people whose lives are even without a single sour note or a single mistake, who never fumble, manage only at the cost of original thought and original action. They do without the successes as well as the failures.

El tiempo físico nos es extraño, mientras el tiempo interior es nosotros mismos.

Warren's guests had learnt about poverty, not from being poor themselves, in places where you did not hear the screams and yelling of help.

Besides, what best prepares children to deal with the challenges of the "real world" is to experience success and joy. People don't get better at coping with unhappiness because they were deliberately made unhappy when they were young.

How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.

I found it much harder to accept the harsh reality of the German experience in the Third Reich. We, a civilized, humane people, had allowed ourselves to become indifferent to brutality committed by our own government on our own citizens.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

Why is life? Don't ask about it. Live it.

Uma vez já caí na armadilha de uma palavra, tive de pagar um preço amargo...

Men sedan man har upplevat och förstått mycket, att då ännu hålla fast, att icke dö utan känna, icke avvika utan hålla stånd, det är något.

Man muß die Welt sehen können und zu ihr hingehn." S.25

Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.

A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.

mais il y a au monde une chose sainte et sublime, c'est l'union de deux de ces êtres si imparfaits et si affreux. On est souvent trompé en amour, souvent blessé et souvent malheureux; mais on aime, et quand on est sur le bord de sa tombe, on se retourne pour regarder en arrière et on se dit : j'ai souffert souvent, je me suis trompé quelquefois, mais j'ai aimé. C'est moi qui ai vécu, et non pas un être factice créé par mon orgueil et mon ennui.»

Qui aima jamais porte une cicatrice.

Non ; cette fois j'ai gagé que je t'emmènerais ; allons, viens, mauvaise tête, et ne trouble le plaisir de personne. Chacun son tour ; c'était hier le tien, aujourd'hui tu es passé de mode ; celui qui ne sait pas se conformer à son sort est aussi fou qu'un vieillard qui fait le jeune homme.

Quoique bien jeune, j'ai trop connu ce qu'on est convenu d'appeler la vie pour n'avoir pas trouvé au fond de cette mer le mépris de ce qu'on aperçoit à sa surface. ( RAZETTA )

un homme de vingt ans peut avoir plus vécu qu'une femme de trente. La liberté dont les hommes jouissent les mène bien plus vite au fond de toutes choses ; ils courent sans entraves vers tout ce qui les attire ; ils essayent de tout. Dès qu'ils espèrent, ils se mettent en marche, ils vont, ils s'empressent. Arrivés au but, ils se retournent ; l'espérance est restée en route, et le bonheur a manqué de parole. »