Quotes About Experience

It's only human to have low moments in life because if you don't, then you won't feel the high, exciting times.

Why do people measure life by the years instead of how good the years were?

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.

Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Something had sharpened her, and he thought it might be memory.

I walked outside, into the welter of the stinging water, the gusting pockets of wind.

Cultural indigestion, I tell you, the gripe in the bowels of your spirit.

You never know every part of yourself because you never encounter yourself in all situations.

As much as possible, allow yourself to be a raw nerve end that internalizes whatever is experienced in life.

I am convinced now that I and the rest of the expedition were given access to these records for the simple reason that, for certain kinds of classified information, it did not matter what we knew or didn't know. There was only one logical conclusion: Experience told our superiors that few if any of us would be coming back.

The enormity of this experience combined with the heartbeat and the crescendo of sound from its ceaseless writing to fill me up until I had no room left. This moment, which I might have been waiting for my entire life all unknowing—this moment of an encounter with the most beautiful, the most terrible thing I might ever experience—was beyond me.

You tell yourself this is no less or more real than bowling at Chipper's.[...] That this moment is the same as every other moment, that it makes no difference to the atoms, to the air, to the creature whose walls breathe all around you.

The fall took forever. The fall took no time at all.

I knew it for an hour on the autobahn, under a gray Rhenish sky, and forgot it in your arms.

The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.

We all live in a kind of continuous dream," I told him. "When we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we've taken as reality.

You know what they say about skydivers, right? There are old skydivers and bold skydivers, but there are no old, bold skydivers.

I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.