Quotes About Experience

But I didn't want to share everything yet… I needed that time alone with it first, that delicious time where you replay every moment, where you make what has happened more real and also less—it becomes fact the more you repeat it, but it becomes story, too.

Oh, every person is a book with chapters. Some are glorious and some are dark and ugly. Every person

The past is a good place for the past.

Books make you feel things hard.

Words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.

More, much more, will happen after this. Things involving maps and books and true love and tragedy, tragedy like you wouldn't believe. But fine things too. The best ones.

Each story, good and bad, short or long--from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness--they are all a line or a paragraph in our own life manuscript. Two thirds of the way through, even, and it all won't necessarily make sense, but at the end there'll be a beautiful whole, where every sentence of every chapter fits.

Then again, could you go through a colonoscopy with someone and not be wedded for life?

We are what we've been so far.

We have longer ways to go," Annabelle would say in a pro-found Kerouac voice. "No matter," Kat would answer. "The road is life.

History can feel so distant sometimes, and other times, close enough that you can feel it right inside of you, close enough that you can see it moving away from you and toward you at the same time.

Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two.

People make mistakes, it's just part of life. But, it's what we do with those mistakes that matters. What matters is what we learn from the mistakes, not what the mistake is.

I want her to know that this world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don't be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.

No matter how long it takes to heal...we share the same scars...

So, go. Travel far. Travel courageously. Travel young.

A single recipe holds countless stories.

One is far better off feeling than one is thinking.

All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience.

Every day is a journey.

Every day sings its own song.

Be one with today's adventure.

Film brings people together.

Every object holds a story.