Quotes About Experience

Don't be sorry you loved him. That's part of you, part you have to let go, yeah, but still something that's made you who you are.

there's a big difference between death threats and love letters--even if the person writing the death threats still claims to actually love you. Of course, considering I once tried to kill someone I loved, maybe I had no right to judge.

For someone who'd spent most of his adult life fearful of getting girls pregnant, I thought my unexpected paternal trial was turning out reasonably well.

Rose, you're wise in so many ways . . . and so young in others.

Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try.

Wrong? I don't know, Sage. Honestly, that was the most right thing that's happened to me in a while.

You said it yourself: you escaped with me to feel the world again. Its beauty.

We cooked our first meal today. I didn't know it was possible to burn spaghetti.

That's part of you, part you have to let go, yeah, but still something that's made you who you are....

La experiencia no es lo que te pasa a ti. Es lo que haces con lo que te pasa».

This next sentence is one of the most important spiritual truths you will ever learn: God develops the fruit of the Spirit in your life by allowing you to experience circumstances in which you're tempted to express the exact opposite quality! Character development always involves a choice, and temptation provides that opportunity.

including one for the holders of the Fastpass.

For it is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new,unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical, will live the relation to another as something alive.

We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terrors, they are our terrors; if it has abysses, these abysses belong to us; if there are dangers, we must try to love them. And if only we arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience.

Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.

Then draw near to nature. Pretend you are the very first man and then write what you see and experience, what you love and lose.

The sun crouched behind leaves, but the trees had long since walked away. The meaning that surfaces comes to me aslant and I go to meet it, stepping out of my body word for word, until I am everything at once: the perfume of the world in which I go under, a skindiver remembering air

LOOKING UP FROM THE PAGE, I AM REMINDED OF THIS MORTAL COIL Mercurial ribbon licking the cut lip of the Blue Ridge— daybreak or end, I can't tell as long as I ignore the body's marching orders, as long as I am alive in air . . . What good is the brain without traveling shoes?

Cada día que pasa me parece que mi vida ha sido la justa, y que si tuviera que elegir de nuevo mi propia vida elegiría la que tuve.

I realized that liking or not liking someone was irrelevant. It was the time in history that you shared. A time binds you to another person just as passions tie to you to the dead.

I closed the door forever on idealism and the essential goodness of human nature, and I walked to the Greyhound bus station by the same path that I had taken on my arrival.

Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.