I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does
—Virginia Peterson
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
—Kahlil Gibran
Life is about experience. You can’t hold on to everything.
—Sarah Addison Allen in Garden Spells
It has always been part of basic human experience to live in a culture of wilderness. There has been no wilderness without some kind of human presence for several hundred thousand years. Nature is not a place to visit, it is home.
—Gary Snyder
I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone.
—Sarah Addison Allen in Garden Spells
People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for it to have been one of the most valuable experiences of a lifetime.
—Ethel Person
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
—Douglas Adams
It seems to me that the experiences that stay with you, the things you’ll always remember, aren’t the ones you can force, or go looking for. I’ve always thought of those things as the ones that somehow find you.
—Jessi Kirby in Golden
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
—Richard Bach
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
—George Jean Nathan
The heart is forever inexperienced.
—Henry David Thoreau
Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience.
—Leo Tolstoy
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
—Logan Pearsall Smith
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
—Max Frisch