Quotes About Experience

A los veinte años yo calculaba, medía, pesaba y planificaba. Casi cuarenta después, era capaz de apretarme la nariz y tirarme a la pileta sin haber averiguado antes si había agua o no. Pero con los ojos abiertos. Me gustaba más a mí misma ahora que a los veinte años. Una de dos, o la experiencia me había dado lo que la sabiduría popular atribuye a la juventud, o la sabiduría popular es una mierda. Me incliné por la segunda posibilidad.

Suddenly the reader's eyes were filled with tears, and a loving voice whispered in his ear: -Why are you crying if everything in that book isn't true?- And the reader replied: -I know; but what I feel is real.

We all have our own special brand of pain and hurt.

That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.

She was too young, too soft and new, to come to terms with these wild beings whose minds veered at crazy angles from the short, straight, smooth lines of her own experience.

Even if it is the dream made flesh, the real, once it becomes real, can be no more than real.

a great future behind him, already

There had never been such roses as those that bloomed that summer. They clambered everywhere and dripped as if perspiring the heaviest most intoxicating perfume, which seemed to make the very masonry drunk. The senses fused; sometimes these roses emitted low but intolerably piercing pentatonic melodies which were the sound of their deep crimson colour and yet we heard them inside our nostrils.

The more I saw of love, the less I liked the look of it

Watching a film was like being a voyeur, living vicariously.

By the end of the affair, she had acquired so much miserable information about men and women she almost decided to give up relationships for good.

NU S-AR FI A?TEPTAT CA SUFLETUL LUI SÄ' CUNOASCÄ' ASTFEL DE TRÄ'IRI. […] MELANIE SE SIMÈšEA U?OR VINOVATÄ' CÄ' NU-I PUTEA ÎMPÄ'RT??I SENTIMENTELE CU ACEEA?I INTENSITATE.

I say he had a propensity for 'finding himself in the right place at the right time'; yet it was almost as if he himself were an objet trouvé, for, subjectively, himself he never found, since it was not his self which he sought.

La commedia è una tragedia che capita agli altri.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.

they allowed the beauty of their world to overtake them. I can't begin to write how glorious it all was. Words aren't enough. One thing for sure, I'd never wanted to really truly be a horse so much in my life. But as much as I was there with them, I could never fully enter their world. All I could do was sit in my house on a cold night with

From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.

While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about.

Perhaps as one gets older one takes one's joys altruistically,"said John, in turn thinking aloud. "I must say though I sometimes wish I could get it selfishly, just for myself, as Gay used to give me, when I was young." Lady Emily found nothing to say. John's last words fell dead on her heart. It terrified her that he could speak of his youth as a perished thing.

Madame Boulle, in spite of her experiences among the highest English families, was amazed at the coolness shown by Lady Emily. A grandchild in danger of drowning, a young man in danger of a pneumonia and a bronchitis, and she was entirely calm, not even impressed by Pierre's bravery. Bravery in the face of danger, Madame Boulle explained, was the characteristic of her family.

One is a young untried creature and then one day looks back and sees that young creature very far behind one; so distant that one can barely believe that one has journeyed so far.

When we are young we all look through our elders, to see what lies beyond. And when we see what is there, we are the elders ourselves.

We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living...I believe that God meant for life to take our breath away, sometimes because of the sheer joy of it all and sometimes because of the severe pain. To choose living over pretending means that we will know both.