Quotes About Experience

dream from the past, unconnected with reality, but absolutely defining the identity of the person involved.

He went to prison," she said. "For beating up on you?" "In Texas?" she said. She laughed, just a yelp, like a short cry of pain. "Now I know you're new here.

He was no longer young, and not yet old. Mentally and physically he was up there on a broad plateau of common sense and maturity and peak capability. He was not behind schedule. He was not speeding. He was not drunk. He

Julie nearly fainted when I showed up at home that night with the new Lexus. The first thing she wanted to do was drive it. I let her drive all over San Francisco with the windows rolled up, because we didn't want to lose one precious whiff of that new-car smell.

Literary art's sudden, startling truth and beauty make us feel, in the most solitary part of us, that we are not alone, and that there are meanings that cannot be bought, sold or traded, that do not decay and die. This socially and economically worthless experience is called transcendence, and you cannot assign a paper, or a grade, or an academic rank, on that. Literature is too sacred to be taught. It needs only to be read.

The WELLians were learning how to turn their private experiences into a public commodity.

Is any story not always the narrator's story, in the end?

They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you.

Heyday, now that is a funny word ain't it? Part of a heyday is, you don't never know you are having yourself one till later when it's all over with, long gone.

For once I am living my life rather than watching it pass in review.

there is nothing real or true that is timeless

Even to someone as notorious as Madonna, I think Jesus would say, 'I'll help you experience the fulfillment that has eluded you despite your struggle to find it. I'll help heal whatever's driving you to affirm your self-worth in self-defeating ways. But I can only help you if you let me.

just about every human being can reflect on his or her past and say, 'I learned from that hardship. I didn't think I would at the time, but I'm a bigger and better person for having endured it and persevered.

while grace sets apart Christianity, so does truth. Jesus was filled with grace and truth, and in Christianity you can know the truth, not just through some sort of spiritual experience, but also through careful investigation.

Kirjailija ei tosin minun mielestäni ole taikuri joka hokkus-pokkuskeinoilla tarjoaa hetken paon ankeasta arjesta, vaan pikemminkin hän on hovimestari joka järjestää lukijalleen tapaamisen todellisuuden kanssa. Mutta katsas on rakennettava mielikuvitusta ja sisäisiä näkyjä noudattaen.

I felt laden. Air itself has weight and mass, and Kansas had the most air of anywhere I'd ever been.

In times of dread it's good to have an old man along. An old man has seen worse.

Is it hubris to believe we all live epics?

It's peculiar, to reach your destination," he told me. "You think you'll arrive and perform the thing you came for and depart in contentment. Instead you get there and find distance still to go.

He had a hundred merry crinkles at his eyes and a long-haul sadness in his shoulders.

I breathe deeply, and certainty enters into me like light, like a piece of science, and curious music seems to hum inside my fingers. Is there a single person on whom I can press belief? No sir. All I can do is say, Here's how it went. Here's what I saw. I've been there and am going back. Make of it what you will.

It's never been hard for me to fall in love, a quality that has yet to simplify one single day of my life.

You know how it is—you grow up with a story all your life, it can transmute into something you neither question nor particularly value. It's why we have such bad luck learning from mistakes.

A veteran bystander to hard moments, I knew they went by quicker when you were unconscious.