Quotes about Experience

The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

When we begin to experience our life as the miraculous expression of divinity - not occasionally, but all the time - then we will know the true meaning of success.

There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.

When you were young you were afraid of ghosts, and when you were aged you called them to you.

As I turned the pages, I felt as if there were bees on my fingertips, for I had never felt so alive as when reading.

You never know what you want or need until you are old, for old age is a mystery that is impossible to unwind until you step into its maze.

Perhaps what people said was true, that any man who lived long enough would eventually realize that the way in which he was cursed was also the blessing he received.

He wasn't the first man she'd been with, and that hadn't been Bill back home either. It had been a boy she met on holiday when she was fifteen. She had decided it was time for her to have sex, the way someone else might decide it was time to get a driver's license, and she'd gone ahead with it. Pragmatic, that's the way she'd always been.

Well, I think of life as a novel. You can't just hop out of the mess you're in and into another story. You carry it all with you.

Those lines in Gillian's face are the most beautiful part about her. They reveal what she's gone through and what she's survived and who exactly she is, deep inside.