Quotes About Experience

Age is an opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress.

the behavior we see as "diminished" in elderly parents, clients, and friends actually exists to do a very specific developmental job.

In this school of life, it is impossible to need a particular lesson without that lesson appearing. It is impossible for a lesson to appear without your needing it. The next lesson is always ready and waiting.

David Sosnowski

That the dying mind would take us back to the time when we felt most alive.

It's a Venn diagram with two overlapping circles—inside me and outside me—and the point where they overlap is where my experience of consciousness is located.

In life, I regret the things I didn't do far more than the missteps I made along the way.

each subjective pleasure which had no foundation in action, there was a subjective sorrow,

At a certain pitch of religious experience, the heart just wants to sing; it breaks into song. Paradoxically, you could say when the silence finds its fullness, it comes to word.

Can we keep ourselves open to the experience of nonnormativity as something other than inferiority, deviancy, and intolerable aberrancy (a mere ableist projection of the pathologizing fantasies of normativity)?

Doing so, however, reinforces a problematic "we" that discounts those with disabilities by suggesting all of us occupy failed embodiments in some way without an ability to attend to crip/queer materiality's nuances of experience.

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

Uno muere a plazos, en contra de lo que pensamos. Porque el final del amor es lo más parecido a la muerte para todos aquellos que no han experimentado la muerte real, que es sin discusión lo más parecido a la muerte. Los muertos, justo antes de morirse, ponen un gesto de ah, vaya, era esto. En cambio, en el final del amor nadie entiende nada, ¿qué es esto?, nadie me había contado nada de esto, porque no reconoce a la muerte entregando uno de sus plazos.

It's strange how sometimes you can be so happy it goes all the way round to sadness.

most of all he wanted to tell them about the marvellous adventure he had shared with her,

How did it sound?" asked Tom. "Awful! But it didn't matter how it sounded!" said Robin. "It was how it felt!

We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.

A father's love was special; a black father's love was a blessing– I knew this because of how I felt about being able to experience my own father's love.

There is no finish line. So love the journey.

Chesterton,' he said gently, 'this is the hardest part of all for you. I know exactly what you're going through and it's no triumph for me to be right. I have transported us all away from your world and your Universe and we have landed on a new planet. Accept that because you must. Tears and anger will not take you back to Earth, so learn from this new experience and profit by it.

The ecstasy of seeing her versus the agony of losing her, a million births and a million deaths.

Does this story have a happy ending?" Bobby asked. "There is no such thing as an ending," she said. "Good things come out of bad things and bad things come out of good things, but it always continues. It's as in life. Books are life. There is just the part you read. They start before that. They finish after it. Everything carries on forever. You are only in it for those pages, for a tiny window of time.

We find that, all along, we had what we needed from the beginning and that in the end we have returned to its essence, an essence we could not understand until we had experienced the actual heartbreak of the journey.

the lost sense that we play out our lives as part of a greater story