Quotes About Experience

Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.

The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.

There are moments when we have real fun because, just for the moment, we don't think about things and then--we remember--and the remembering is worse than thinking of it all the time would have been.

I'm glad I never had any children,' said Cousin Sarah. 'If they don't break your heart in one way they do it in another.' 'Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up?' queried Valancy. 'Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.

Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.

Rilla's heart skipped a beat - or, if that be a pysiological impossibility, she thought it did.

She will love deeply, she will suffer terribly, she will have glorious moments to compensate.

There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.

Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.

Perhaps it was nothing very dreadful after all. I think the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things,' said Anne with one of those flashes of insight which experience could not have bettered.

I have been reading three books Dean lent me this week. One was like a rose garden--very pleasant, but just a little too sweet. And one was like a pine wood on a mountain--full of balsam and tang--I loved it, and yet it filled me with a sort of despair. It was written so beautifully--I can never write like that, I feel sure. And one--it was just like a pig-sty. Dean gave me that one by mistake.

It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up,' laughed Anne. 'That's a true word, dearie. Some are grown up when they're born, and others ain't grown up when they're eighty, believe me. That same Mrs. Roderick I was speaking of never grew up. She was as foolish when she was hundred as when she was ten.' 'Perhaps that was why she lived so long,' suggested Anne.

If you buy your experience it's your own. So it's no matter how much you pay for it.

to hike along a deep-rutted, pebbly lane in frail, silver-hued slippers with high French heels, is not an exhilirating experience.

I'm afraid you'll find out all too soon that life's a melancholy business.

She isn't like any of the girls I ever knew, or any of the girls I was myself. How many girls were you, Aunt Jimsie? About half a dozen, my dear.

I suppose we'll get used to being grownup in time. There won't be so many unexpected things about it by and by–though, after all, I fancy it's the unexpected things that give spice to life.

It's no wonder we can't understand the grown-ups, said the Story Girl indignantly, because we've never been grown-up ourselves. But THEY have been children, and I don't see why they can't understand us.

Experience teaches sense. You can't learn it in a college course.

Having adventures comes naturally to some people. You just have a gift for them or you don't have - Anne Shirley

People who haven't natural gumption never learn, retorted Aunt Jamesina, neither in college nor life. If they live to be a hundred they really don't know anything more than when they were born.