Quotes About Experience

Principom, ktory dodava myslienke dynamicku silu korespondovat s jej predmetom, a tak zvladnut akukolvek nepriaznivu ludsku skusenost, je zakon pritazlivosti, ktory je inym oznacenim pre lasku. Je to vecny a fundamentalny princip, ktory je podstatou vsetkych veci, kazdeho filozofickeho systemu, nabozenstva i vedy. Zakonu lasku sa neda uniknut. To cit prepoziciava mysleniu vitalitu. Cit je tuzba a tuzba je laska. Myslienka presiaknuta laskou sa stava neporazitelnou.

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

We live in a culture eager to make truth a boutique experience as malleable as our personal tastes require.

One third of the history is based on what I have experienced myself, about one third on the experience of a very good friend whose drinking career I followed very closely, and the other third is pure invention.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

And what was the song which she sang? Ah, my little man, I am too old to sing that song, and you too young to understand it.

his little whirl-about of a head was so full of the notion of going out to see the world, that it forgot her in five minutes: however, though his head forgot her, I am glad to say his heart did not.

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

Rather happiness, peace or serenity is our natural state. Beneath all of what we add to our feelings and experience, beneath our self-contraction, lies serenity Itself." (pg. 141).

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

Lawers, I suppose, were children once.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.

I have indeed lived nominally fifty years, but deduct out of them the hours which I have lived to other people, and not to myself, and you will find me still a young fellow. For that is the only true Time, which a man can properly call his own-- that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's Time, not his.

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

Life is like an ice cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?

Lucy: You learn more when you lose Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!

You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am... Carry on.