Quotes About Experience

Nous avions le temps. Lui, parce qu'il était vieux, moi parce que j'étais jeune. [We had time. Him, because he was old, me because I was young.]

El hombre se pasa la vida en dos sitios solamente: en su cama y en sus zapatos.

Le veritable voyage consiste toujours en la confrontation d'un imaginaire a une realite: il se situe entre ces deux mondes. Une secrete melancolie s'attache aux etres que l'on quitte apres les avoir beaucoup aimes.

La urma urmei cred c? nu este chiar cel mai r?u lucru. Exist? o copil?rie pe care trebuie s? o p?r?se?ti, o copil?rie de care trebuie s? te vindeci.

Ich habe versucht, meinen Eltern zu erklären, was das Leben für ein komisches Geschenk ist. Am Anfang überschätzt man dieses Geschenk, man glaubt, man lebt ewig. Später unterschätzt man es, man findet es kümmerlich, zu kurz, am liebsten würde man es wegschmeißen. Am Ende wird einem klar, daß es gar kein Geschenk ist, sondern nur geliehen.

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To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.

Without effort and willingness to experience pain and anxiety, nobody grows, in fact nobody achieves anything worth achieving.

Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people

Pleasure and thrill are conducive to sadness after the so-called peak has been reached; for the thrill has been experienced, but the vessel has not grown.

The only way of full knowledge lies in the act of love; this act transcends thought, it transcends words. It is the daring plunge into the experience of union.

We have faith in the potentialities of other, of ourselves, and of mankind because, and only to the degree which, we have experienced the growth of our own potentialities, the reality of growth in ourselves, the strength of our own power of reason and of love.

The "tourist" with his camera is an outstanding symbol of an alienated relationship to the world. Being constantly occupied with taking pictures, actually he does not see anything at all, except through the intermediary of the camera. The camera sees for him, and the outcome of his "pleasure" trip is a collection of snapshots, which are the substitute for an experience which he could have had, but did not have.

life is not a linear process at all, but a series of repeating patterns

I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day.

It's funny, but your parents can give you everything in the world, but they can't teach you what to do with it. That, you have to learn for yourself.

All age is a kind of tiredness, I think. When you're young, the lines never show. Every morning you wake unmarked, wiped clear by sleep. One day, though, you see lines that itch, as though some crumb of existence has been creased into your skin. They can never be smoothed away, and after a while you forget that this heavy, irritable feeling wasn't always there.

Boredom is a horrible misfortune.  Let go, allow yourself to have fun.  Be silly at your own expense.  Any one of these ideas can cure the affliction of what to do when you're bored.  Share your experience to break the boredom of a friend.

I feel I've done some things in life too late and others too early

The food doesn't matter, really. What it evokes does.

I was always depressed growing up. There wasn't a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot and that was how I dealt with it.

I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.

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Time. Aching like a bruise, pounding like a heart.