Quotes About Experience

History is what we do in our lives. We create it as we go along.

There was always something to be learned from any experience, no matter how horrendous. As long as a man kept sight of that, his spirits could prevail against anything. It was only when one gave in and believed the universe to be nothing more than a chaotic collection of unfortunate or cruel events that one's spirit could be crushed.

I have always been more curious than wise. Yet any wisdom I have ever gained has come to me from my curiosity. So I have never learned to turn away from it.

We cannot put old heads on young shoulders.

Once a man has been broken by pain, he remains forever a victim. He cannot ever forget that place he has visited, the moment when he decided that he would surrender everything rather than endure more pain. It is a shame no man ever completely recovers from. Some try to drown it by becoming the perpetrator of similar pain, and creating a new victim to bear for them that shame. Cruelty is a skill taught not only by example but by experience of it.

Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful. Years after I could have benefited from them, the insights come to me.

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.

hope lingers over us like a lullaby because we were created to experience love and to give love.

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

Doesn´t matter who you are or what you believe. Everybody has a ghost story

Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.

In the beginning, the call of God was not propositional. It was experiential. (p. 10)

Books -- they come home hot in your hands and then by increments they warm your life, like heated bricks in a New England bed.

Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.

Thank God I could say that I had truly enjoyed the journey, because if I had saved all of my joy for the destination, I would have missed it. We are all so focused on getting "there," but you have to be careful. Sometimes, I sense a lot of times, "there" ends up feeling different than you expected.

Never regret your past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is.

Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life.

Life is like a tasting plate. You have to try everything...at least once.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but are spiritual beings having a human experience.

caring is not abstract. The circle of ecological compassion we feel is enlarged by direct experience of the living world, and shrunken by its lack.

Maybe there is no such thing as time; there are only moments, each with its own story.

I like to imagine that they were the first flowers I saw, over my mother's shoulder, as the pink blanket slipped away from my face and their colors flooded my consciousness. I've heard that early experience can attune the brain to certain stimuli, so that they are processed with greater speed and certainty, so that they can be used again and again, so that we remember. Love at first sight.

The fork in the road stands atop a hill. To the left the path is soft and green and spangled with dew. You want to go barefoot. The path to the right is ordinary pavement, deceptively smooth at first, but then it drops out of sight into the hazy distance. Just over the horizon, it is buckled with heat, broken to jagged shards.