Quotes about Experience

When I was a little girl, my father, who was a high-ranking officer, pilot, and an avionics specialist in the United States military, would hoist me up onto the elevator - the flight control surface located at the tail of his airplane. From up there I could get a glimpse of the world as he saw it.

Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.

I'm not going to pretend to be 50. I just want to be happy and enjoy the experiences I have and take advantage of every opportunity I've been given.

Of course I've had a problem with people taking me seriously because of my age. People are always going do that because you're less experienced; you haven't lived as much.

We all arrive on Earth with a round-trip ticket.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

People talk of life's storms as if they are universal experiences. But they're not. Some people hear thunder while others touch lightning.

It's our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we're nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it's worth it.

For the third time since I began, my walk has been delayed. In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions---but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey. No matter how much I, or the rest of humanity wishes otherwise, life is not lived in smooth, downhill expressways, but in the obscure, perilous trails and rocky back roads of life where we stumble and feel our way through the fog of the unknown.

Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us.

He had sensory processing disorder—something we didn't know about back then—and was highly sensitive to smells.

Life's book is written on the heart.