Quotes About Experience

Reality cannot be experienced with the intellect, because the intellect can only think thoughts about reality

The lessons in life are life

We create suffering by denying our own actual experience and embracing relative truth

We may think about what we experience, but we will experience what we think about

Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.

He sat down in a corner and ordered half a pound of dumplings, which came in a white bowl with a blue rim. While he was eating, his memory was further revived and sharpened by the familiar taste of the stuffing, made of pork, leeks, cabbage, dried shrimp, ginger, sesame oil. Every bit of the memory became unmistakable now.

In the depths of my being I have never been one of them. I have just written what I experienced.

The dead are older than the living, he thought. Irrespective of how old they were when they passed over to the other side, they have experienced something which makes them older than any living thing.

I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that uncommon generosity causes neglect rather than gratitude.

Through bifocal preaching, those who hear come to understand and experience what the eternal God has to say to them today.

At that time I also had, for a short while, the strength to bear it. But all too soon I lost external sight of the shape of that beautiful man, and I saw him disappear to nothing, so quickly melting away and fusing together that I could not see or observe him outside of me, nor discern him within me. It was to me at that moment as if we were one without distinction.

Die Revolution wirkte auf mich und meine Altersgenossen gerade umgekehrt wie der Krieg: der Krieg hatte unser wirkliches Leben bis zur Langweiligkeit unverändert gelassen, dafür aber unsere Phantasie reichen und unerschöpflichen Stoff gegeben. Die Revolution brachte viel Neues in die tägliche Wirklichkeit, und das Neue war bunt und aufregend genug, aber sie ließ die Phantasie unbeschädigt.

The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

Age for me is just a number.

She thought about how this summer was small. On the ground, it felt huge, but really, it was just a moment in a series of moments.

It is a deep comfort to children to discover that their feelings are a normal part of the human experience. There is no better way to convey that than to understand them. When

The Roman politician and philosopher Cicero once said: 'Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

nothing is as effective as spectacular real-life cases – successful or otherwise – in persuading people.

Und ich dachte, dass die Zeit ein Dieb ist. Sie stiehlt uns alles. Zuerst gibt sie uns alles, aber dann müssen wir alles abliefern. Menschen, Begegnungen, Momente. So einfach ist das. So grausam ist das.

I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.

Reality is not the same to the doer as it is to the sayer

SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO GET MUDDY

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.