#on experience

[stargir1z]

“When we lose linguistic diversity we suffer a consequent loss in the range of ways of experiencing the world.” - Beth Ann Fennelly, Fruits We'll Never Taste, Languages We'll Never Hear: The Need for Needless Complexity

[anaisninpdf]

An experience is gratifying to the extent that those expectations that are aroused are also fulfilled.

Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, And Honey: Collected Essays

[lostbottlesintheocean]

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

Teresa of Ávila

[thefeistybirb]

What Rilke said: Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, to where no one can go any further.

Jenny Offill, Dept. Of Speculation

[aimless-love]

You need good strong ears to hear yourself frankly judged; and since there are few who can undergo it without being hurt, those who risk undertaking it do us a singular act of love, for it is to love soundly to wound and vex a man in the interests of his improvement.

Montaigne, On Experience