Quotes About Experience

We finished off a small pie and when we got home I washed the tomato sauce out of her hair, which I had expected, but also out of her underwear, which I think must be the sign that you have really, really enjoyed your lunch.

Mrs. Gruber said that happiness was not something she aspired to, that when we had seen as much of the world as she had, we would know that what lies right behind the horseshit is not a prize pony, my dears, it's more horseshit.

We think- oh, we will never forget these northern lights, but we do. What we remember is only the curling picture in the left-hand drawer (Presque Isle, Maine, 1934) or a gorgeous half-page photo in an old travel magazine, but what we saw when we held hands, lifting our chins to the sky as if we could leap into the jagged, jeweled brilliance above us, was seen for ten seconds only, and never again.

He read the first one all the way through and breathed in the love, that hot, hurting feeling under your ribs...Love that made life matter even when you were just looking back at it.

Every day is an up-and-down. (Roller-coaster ride makes it sound thrilling; it is not thrilling. The ups and the downs both hurt, it's a mistake to scream, and nothing moves quickly.)

all happiness is fleeting, but I see now that there is fleeting and then there is the true and wall-like impossibility of ever experiencing this kind of happiness again, even once, even next week, let alone a year from now. Doors are closing around us, all the time.

Perspective is useful, of course: It's why very few people want to be eighteen again. But the other side is having so much perspective, it's hard to give a damn about anything happening here in the real.

overlapping"—like generations. My lifetime overlaps my grandmother's and hers overlaps the life of her grandmother, but I was born long after the death of both my great- and great-great-grandmothers. Such are the events of Universe; every experience overlaps some but not all other experiences.

people are more likely to believe they'll be given the benefit of the doubt – a wonderful way to think about psychological safety – when they experience trust and respect at work.

In a related context, Nigerian American novelist Teju Cole once tweeted, "The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.

It wasn't love right away, because nothing ever is no matter what the songs say, but it was the start of it. A beginning in one way, and the end in another. I think that might always be true of love.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

Simple is good," he said. "I've lived through complicated. Complicated hurts. Simple sustains you. Complicated makes you hungry for simple.

Kaden gave another one of those unexpected barks of humor. "Yeah. And I'm telling you, my sister is a shameless, shameless woman, and she swears by the guy in bed. If you ever feel like taking that stick out of your ass, you may want to rethink your stand on him. I understand he's like a religious experience.

He was starting to learn that you didn't really know what it meant unless you felt the broken glass of worry that went with it.

She was twenty-two, not nearly out of college, and she had a collection of old boyfriends that looked like a reunion from that old show Cops.

Oh, that was wonderful. That was the reason the gods let old men live, Cal. So we can watch young men fall in love.

It was like the time he'd driven a friend's MG in college—doable but not fun.

The music owns me," he repeated, feeling dumb. "I am the music. I close my eyes and… I am that chord, or that moment, or that dance. I am…." The crowd, the guitar, the mood, the lyrics, the heartbeats, the drumbeats, the guitar chords, the sweat, the muscle, the movement, the song. "You can't fall when you're there," he said and swallowed hard.

You involved me in a kinky threesome before coffee," he said, hating everybody. "I regret nothing.

all Crick knew was that when he got to the ground, the whole fucking world seemed to be eighteen-year-olds calling him Second-goddamned-Lieutenant.