Quotes About Experience

Life hurts a lot more than death. —Jim Morrison

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Success is a poor teacher

Most men, it seemed to them, went through life never really knowing themselves. A man might consider himself noble or brave or just, they believed, but until he was truly tested it would always be mere opinion.

The feeling of a place was the best reason to go.

Heavy-Egg enjoyed work, and often wondered what it would feel like to be a human and have to spend a third of your life unconscious. He had heard that humans would fall asleep even when their lives were in danger.

I wish I were there to watch the operations and changes; but alas! I am in Kansas scratching for a living.

When the combined taste, smell, and textural stimuli reach the brain, they remain to be interpreted. Whether the overall sensation will be pleasant, repulsive, or somewhere in between will depend on individual physiological differences, on previous experience ("just like my mother used to make"), and on cultural habituation (haggis, anyone?).

The term "river voices" was coined by Frank O. Shaw when he and Richard Baldwin camped here in 1932. The men mistook the gurgling sounds made by the Dosewallips for the indistinct murmur of voices in the distance. They looked up, expecting to see a troop of Scouts coming up the trail, only to realize they had been deceived by the river.

ventured a couple of negative comments about her father, and never tried it again. "It was

MODERN SAUDI HISTORY IN FIVE EASY LESSONS If you did not go hungry in the reign of King Abdul Aziz, you would never go hungry. If you did not have fun in the reign of King Saud, you would never have fun. If you did not go to prison in the reign of King Faisal, you would never go to prison. If you did not make money in the reign of King Khaled, you would never make money. If you did not go bankrupt in the reign of King Fahd . . .

It's the love you had that matters, isn't it, not the pain.

Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.

Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life.

upon that change he passes over to the ranks of the Old Salts and ceases to be a Boot forever. Youth rebels and age conserves; between them, they advance.

Nor was my squad troubled by racial or religious bigotry. We had no "inner conflict," as the phrase goes. These things happen most often in the imagination of men who never fought. Only rear echelons with plenty of fat on them can afford such rich diseases, like an epicure with his gout.

All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.

The psychopath… is a rebel, a religious dis-obeyer of prevailing codes and standards. Moreover, clinical experience with such individuals makes it appear that the psychopath is a rebel without a cause, an agitator without a slogan, a revolutionary without a program.

much flak if I made you a general at your age.

Henry would never know how good it could feel when a running wind chilled the sweat in your hair

The deep truths of the soul's origin, fall, and path of return can only be communicated by way of a full body-mind experience of peace, desire, terror, grief, acceptance, and total commitment. Eliade

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.