Quotes About Experience

turn towards nature, and try, like a First Man, to say what you see and experience and love and lose.

De meeste gebeurtenissen zijn niet te verwoorden, ze voltrekken zich in een ruimte die nog nooit door een woord is betreden.

Bir dünya girer benim görüÅŸ alan?ma, belki ay gibi insan bar?nmayan bir yer; onlar tek duyguyu haline b?rakmaz ama, orta mal?d?r kulland?klar? bütün sözler.

If we allow an encounter with a given thing to be shaped by this expectation that it may last, every such experience will be spoiled and falsified, and ultimately it will be prevented from unfolding its most proper and authentic potential and fertility.

Yazmak için acele etmemek gerekir, mana ve tat toplamal?, bütün ve mümkünse uzun bir hayat boyunca ve sonra en sonunda belki iyi olan ve on sat?r yaz?labilir. Çünkü dizeler, birçoklar?n?n dediÄŸi gibi, deÄŸildir (bunlara insan yeterÅŸnce erken yaÅŸta sahiptir), dizeler deneyimlerdir.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

But only someone who is ready for anything and rules nothing out, not even the most enigmatic things, will experience the relationship with another as a living thing and will himself live his own existence to the full.

most events are unutterable, consummating themselves in a sphere where word has never trod, and more unutterable than them all are works of art, whose life endures by the side of our own that passes away.

solo quien está dispuesto a todo, quien no excluye ninguna experiencia, incluso la más incomprensible, vivirá la relación con otra persona como algo vivo y él mismo sondeará las profundidades de su propio ser.

No se analice demasiado. No se aventure a sacar conclusiones de lo que le ocurre; solo deje que ocurra.

But alas, with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a long life if possible, and then, right at the end, one could perhaps write ten lines that are good. For poems are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough—they are experiences.

Do not search for the answers, which cannot be given you, because you could not live them. That is the point, to live everything, Now you must live your problems. And perhaps gradually, without noticing it, you will live your way into the answer some distant day.

Do not observe yourself too much. Do not draw too hasty conclusions from what happens to you; just let it happen.

We let go of one or the other always yet again: this joyfulness and that sadness. We still do not own either of them.

She has something of her very own, something suffered, accomplished, perfected

And what matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.

You have had many great sadnesses which have now passed by. And you say that their passing was also hard and upsetting for you. But I ask you to consider whether these great unhappinesses did not rather pass through you.

Es handelt sich darum, alles zu leben. Wenn man die Fragen lebt, lebt man vielleicht allmählich, ohne es zu merken, eines fremden Tages in die Antworten hinein.

Come when you should. All this will have been/ passing through me for you to breathe.

We have to be committed not to miss or neglect any opportunity to suffer, to have an experience, or to be happy; our soul arises refreshed from all of that. It has a resting place at those heights that are difficult to reach, and it is at home where one can advance no further: up there we have to carry it. But as soon as we put it down for dead at those extreme spots it awakens and takes flight into skies and celestial depths that from now on belong to us.

All strength we give away comes over us again, experienced and altered. Thus it is in prayer. And what is there, truly done, that is not prayer?

Try to express what you see and experience and love and lose as if you were the first man alive.

And for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me, life is right in every case.

Why should you want to exclude any anxiety, any grief, any melancholy from your life, since you do not know what it is that these conditions are accomplishing in you?