Quotes About Experience

Le Chemin est une alchimie du temps sur l'âme.

CunoÈ™tinÈ›ele sunt cele care se adun? în capul nostru f?r? s? ne fie întotdeauna de vreun folos. CunoaÈ™terea e transformarea unor cunoÈ™tinÈ›e într-o experien?? de via??.

Mysterious paradox: time, motionless here, gallops out there. In my contracted world, the hours drag on but the months flash by.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

When those who lived through the epidemic tried to describe it, they talked about the sudden eerie quiet.

My lips and eyes and heart were stinging when you kissed me in the dark. — Jack Garton to Jennifer Hammer, 2008 (age 24)

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

The sublime feeling is not mere pleasure as taste is – it is a mixture of pleasure and pain... Confronted with objects that are too big according to their magnitude or too violent according to their power, the mind experiences its own limitations.

He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments — negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness and death. Why did I speak of him in the past? He laughed, he is laughing, he is here. It's your sadness, idiot, he'd say.

Urban Dictionary states: An eGolem is a physical creature born or animated from the sum experience of your social persona.

I only meant because sometimes the experience of reading can be corrupted by too many opinions.

Now and again when a book moved her, when a book opened a previously undiscovered window in her mind and forever altered her perception of the world, she would add it to those secret ranks.

Lydia understands that it's not a disguise at all. She and Luca are actual migrants.

Sometimes the experience of reading can be corrupted by too many opinions.

I've seen bad things, too," he assures her. "Yeah?" He nods. "I guess you wouldn't be on top of this train if you hadn't.

He's never been close to a tragedy that barbaric, never experienced a shock so primitive that it shakes him to the very core of his beliefs. In short, Nicolás has never had a fundamental change of heart.

The caffeine hits her bloodstream like a dream of another life.

If there's one good thing about terror, Lydia now understands, it's that it's more immediate than grief.

La cafeína le llega al torrente sanguíneo como un sueño de otra vida.

It's the bond of trauma, the bond of sharing an indescribable experience together. Whatever happens, no one else in their lives will ever fully comprehend the ordeal of this pilgrimage, the characters they've met, the fear that travels with them, the grief and fatigue that eat at them. Their collective determination to keep pressing north.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.