Quotes About Experience

Regret is the most tiresome of companions.

It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.

It's our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we're nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it's worth it.

We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours. Alan Christoffersen's diary

Trauma has a way of indelibly linking the incidentals to the profound.

For the third time since I began, my walk has been delayed. In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions---but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey. No matter how much I, or the rest of humanity wishes otherwise, life is not lived in smooth, downhill expressways, but in the obscure, perilous trails and rocky back roads of life where we stumble and feel our way through the fog of the unknown.

Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us.

He had sensory processing disorder—something we didn't know about back then—and was highly sensitive to smells.

People talk of life's storms as if they are universal experiences. But they're not. Some people hear thunder while others touch lightning.

Life's book is written on the heart.

Love is full of pain and mistakes. That's what makes it interesting and that's why we explore relationships in literature. That whole 'love is never having to say you're sorry' crap is just that, crap. Love is learning how to say you're sorry.

college education does not make one wise; it just fills your head with others' voices.

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine

Every story is a road. And on all roads there are potholes and bumps, detours and unexpected encounters.

I don't want to go to Peru." How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

I like to travel and connect.

The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

People who've had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don't know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!

Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

There are no "great" subjects for the creative writer; there are only the singular details of a single human life.