Quotes About Experience

The price of loving so deeply is feeling so deeply—but it's also a gift, the gift of being alive.

First you will do, then you will understand. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and experience something before its meaning becomes apparent. It's one thing to talk about leaving behind a restrictive mindset. It's another to stop being so restrictive. The transfer of words into action, the freedom of it...

There's a biblical saying that translates roughly as "First you will do, then you will understand." Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and experience something before its meaning becomes apparent. It's one thing to talk about leaving behind a restrictive mindset. It's another to stop being so restrictive. The transfer of words into action, the freedom of it, made me want to carry that action outside the therapy room and into my life.

Welcome to Holland." Written by Emily Perl Kingsley,

You seem like you're enjoying the experience of suffering, so I thought I'd help you out with that." "What?" "There's a difference between pain and suffering," Wendell says. "You're going to have to feel pain - everyone feels pain at times - but you don't have to suffer so much. You're not choosing the pain, but you're choosing the suffering."p62

People don't always remember events or conversations clearly, but they do remember with great accuracy how an experience made them feel.

There's a biblical saying that translates roughly as "First you will do, then you will understand." Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and experience something before its meaning becomes apparent.

What people don't like to think about is that you can do everything right—in life or in a treatment protocol—and still get the short end of the stick. And when that happens, the only control you have is how you deal with that stick—your way, not the way others say you should. I'd let Julie do it her way—I was so inexperienced that I didn't have a strong sense of what a "way" should look like—and it seemed to help.

Everyone should have at least one epic love story in their lives.

Those who can't do, teach.

Everything you feel—anxiety, elation, anguish—blows in and out again.

People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.

Her changing perception of time had altered the sum of her reflections.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

Plus vieux, tu comprendras que, malgré les apparences, il n'y a pas de bon ou mauvais moment. Il y a un moment, point final.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

What is it about sadness that can be so fulfilling?

In those dangerous narrows grew children who knew too much too young but, sadly, always seemed to learn too little too late.

Uncle Stash said you didn't have to be crazy to to do something stupid, just young.

Regrets serve their purpose. You'll see.

What if she did get hurt? It wouldn't be the first time and it probably wouldn't be the last. Life hurt. That's how you knew you were alive. But life was also a beautiful adventure, and the bad things were what made the good things worth cherishing.

Good sense comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from actin' like a damn fool. —Dutch Callahan

the same and you know it." "Isn't it? So you had your heart broken. Any of us that have been around for any length of time have had our hearts broken. That's life.

Any of us that have been around for any length of time have had our hearts broken. That's life. That's all it is. Loving, getting hurt, but daring to love again, even though you know you're probably going to get hurt again. That's the triumph of the human spirit. The infinite capacity to love.