Quotes About Experience

L'instant du départ est si longtemps inscrit en nous que le moment où il arrive nous semblera toujours banal.

We can be the people who either crush or cultivate our children's sense of awe as they enter a world that doesn't necessarily foster it. When we choose to experience wonder, we help our children retain the tools to keep doing so as they get older.

My father tells me that the further you get away from an experience, the deeper it roots itself inside of you. Don't fool yourself, baby, he said. Time does not heal and history is not progressive.

If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

How lucky Drew was to have this mother of hers, this constant, reliable, if at times irritating presence in her life--this mother, like so many other mothers, beloved and blamed. Lucky she was to have experience, through her mother, the twisted intricaciesof deep, and deeply complex, love.

Life itself is a gift. It's a compliment just being born: to feel, breathe, think, play, dance, sing, work, make love, for this particular lifetime. Today, let's give thanks for life. For life itself. For simply being born!

I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.

Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long.

Sometimes life sends us lessons in ridiculous packaging.

and now I laugh at how the world changed me, and I think life chose me . . . after all.

You will become less organized as you get older.

Because once you're born you might feel all of those things," Boris was saying. "In any order. And you can't control it." Daniel looked up, but Boris had turned away from him, his eyes staring at the ground. He held him tighter. "Maybe it will never happen," Boris said, and blinked. "I hope it never will. But if it does, I want you to be prepared.

Did you ever notice that when you read the same book again and again, the book doesn't change, but you do?

That's the problem. We don't grow. We're like an old book, full of stories and also full of errors, and no one can completely understand us, even though many people try. But the problem is that we don't change. Only the people around us change.

Mistakes are a very durable building material," the mortal Daniel was saying. "Most people just throw them away as soon as possible and never realize that you can learn from them. But if you do, they can actually hold you up pretty well.

Most people have never seen the inside of a womb—or, rather, everyone has seen it, but almost no one remembers it.

two thousand years." "Maybe you've been flying

Everything was new, now I'm a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.

Pain was my tie to a past that a part of me wanted to hold on to. The more I hurt, the more I knew I loved, and that felt like a good thing.

Whatever age you are when you're first burned is old enough to lose hope that you'll ever get excited about anybody else.

To je bila tužna pri?a - re?e. - Je li istinita? - A koja nije? - kimnu starica.

There is so much wisdom in the straightforward words of A. W. Tozer: The church is famishing for want of his presence. The instant cure of most of our religious ills would be to enter the presence in spiritual experience, to become suddenly aware that we are in God and that God is in us. This would lift us out of our pitiful narrowness and cause our hearts to be enlarged.2

I know firsthand that once you've tasted the reality of God—not hype or excitement, but the great filling of His glory through your veins—your spiritual taste buds are simply ruined for anything counterfeit. There