Quotes About Experience

That which we witness, we are forever changed by, and once witnessed we can never go back.

Qué queda de la vida si ya no dejamos que las cosas nos lleguen de cerca?

We write to taste life twice" Anais Nin

The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road.

I look at my feet. I hold back my tears, slump my shoulders, and retreat just enough to show deference. I have learned a lot from growing up with animals.

But then, he smiled to himself, they were all in the same boat now.

We go back a long way, Apprentice," he said. Septimus wasn't sure if he liked the sound of that, but the old man's smile calmed him a little.

Indeed, as we shall see, it is a bad mistake to confuse life satisfaction and happiness; the former is an overall judgment about life that comes from consideration, while the latter is an emotion, a mood, or a feeling, which is part of experiencing life.16

Everything is a learning experience.

Life can't be put on paper in all its complexity.

Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say.

one always seemed to be getting too old for something.

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.

If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up

a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned

I got highways for stretchmarks See where I've grown.

Music was an entry point, like a passport or a key that allows you through an invisible portal into the beating heart of the world. The collective heart that unites us . . . (in a unified field of consciousness, in the bodily experience of being animals in time) and also into the hearts of individuals . . . (into that person and that person). Music showed itself to me as a fractal way in.

That trip to The City could not have lasted more than a few days, but because my universe exploded and was expanding at such a rapid speed, time stood still. Each experience imprinted itself on me like it would a newborn child. When I came home I think I called my mother and told her I was moving to New York and I think she said something to the effect of, "I trust your judgment." It took me a few years, but eventually, that's exactly what I did.

Is experience worth one year, multiplied by ten years, good?' He meant that if we could do the same thing repeatedly, for a long period of time, we don't necessarily become wiser at it or in general.

I felt as if I had more to learn than I had time on earth.

And suddenly you know: that was enough. You rise and there appears before you in all its longings and hesitations the shape of what you lived. Book of Images

In the course of my work this last long winter, I have experienced a truth more completely than ever before: that life's bestowal of riches already surpasses any subsequent impoverishment. What, then, remains to be feared? Only that we might forget this! But around and within us, how much it helps to remember!

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has; that is why the gods are always young.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.