Quotes About Experience

Sometimes I think the memory of an event is better than the event itself.

I'm thirty-five and remember all that I've done wrong.

People love to make big pronouncements about poetry saving us. And I want to believe that, but for now, what I can say is … poetry can make us feel. And right now, maybe that's enough. It doesn't have to bring us hope or joy, it just has to remind us that we feel. That we are alive, and here, and feeling the world.

Does poetry have its issues? One hundred percent. Does poetry have its limitations? One hundred percent. It's not going to cure disease or feed the hungry, but it might help us to understand someone else's experience just a little bit better. Or maybe it'll make us mad and then we'll have to interrogate why we're mad, or implicated, or why we feel left out. Like many of the arts, poetry can be the way of recognizing our own beauty and our own flaws.

We forget most of our past but embody all of it.

people don't entertain you, / Nature will"—is

Let's take a walk. You can show me some of your memories and I'll show you some of mine.

I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.

Don't miss out on life just to stay alive.

Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.

There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it. The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.

Gaining insight and perspective is not about the number of years you've lived. It's about the number of lessons you've learned.

Knowledge is best sought from experts, but creativity and wisdom can come from anywhere.

The mark of a lifelong learner is recognizing that you can learn something from everyone you meet. Knowledge is best sought from experts. Wisdom can come from anywhere.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." —ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

The human authors and editors of the Old Testament brought their own experiences and presuppositions to the task of writing. We don't often think about this when we read the Bible.

An old impatience returned, the kind I had experienced when I started as a therapist: the urge to search for the moments in their past that contained the key to liberating them in the present.

It's worth it, I thought. Just for this, for a few moments of the almost sublime, even if I had to half talk my way into it, and allow myself the cliché of being impressed by Niagara Falls.

I guess the lesson is, wherever you go, life follows you there, hunts you down, and abducts you (just kidding).

the motion of our blood could almost stop, our bodies be laid to sleep, but somehow the soul be kept alive. Simply by the things we saw and heard, in any given moment

There was just the sensation of it. A

With children, everything's already happening and then over with. It happens while you're trying to keep up and gone by the time you arrive at a view of things.

Old women look all innocent and goody-two-shoes, but then they level some all-knowing eyes on your ass.

To me," Jun Do said, "what everybody gets wrong about ghosts in the notion that they're dead. In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range.