Quotes About Experience

But in her seventy and more years, she had learned that the risks taken for others gave the greatest rewards.

More than anything else, more than your body, or the food you eat, you are your teeth. Life is a journey from milk teeth to false teeth with fillings and crowns thrown in in between for relief.

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.

So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

I am a student of love.

Out of forty-eight boys twenty had never seen the Brooklyn Bridge that was scarcely five minutes' walk away, three only had been in Central Park, fifteen had known the joy of a ride in a horse-car. The street, with its ash-barrels and its dirt, the river that runs foul with mud, are their domain.

journey had been

He acted, however, himself, in this high position, with great energy and with complete success; and, at the same time, with all that modesty of deportment, and that delicate consideration for the officers under him—who, though inferior in rank, were yet his superiors in age and experience—which his position rendered proper, but which few persons so young as he would have manifested in circumstances so well calculated to awaken the feelings of vanity and elation.

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye.

The richness of human life is that we have many lives; we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do.

The richness of human life is that we have many lives; we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do; and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay for living a thousand lives.

You can love a song, but you can form a bond with an album, a relationship that evolves as organically and beautifully as a marriage.

great literature is literature that speaks to deep, fundamental human truths and experience in a way that is relatable to the reader and that may provoke engagement or facilitate insight into these truths and experiences. If these truths and experiences are about breaches of the normal, then surely horror has a place in literature, and in facts may proffer deep engagement with the most profound aspects of our existence. Sometimes only horror can say what needs to be said.

El logro de la Unidad se produce cuando el observador incorpora en un acto simultáneo de observación, todos los contenidos de la experiencia. En esta hazaña el observador se confunde con sus contenidos y desaparece la división entre ambos, lográndose así el acceso a la Realidad del Yo Puro.

El paso de la Conciencia de sí a la Conciencia de Unidad se produce cuando el acto de observación incorpora todos los contenidos posibles de la experiencia. El Observador unifica todos estos contenidos y por tanto se produce la Unidad del Observador y sus objetos de observación. Esta Conciencia de Unidad es un contacto con la Existencia Pura y tanto la existencia como la vida misma sobrepasan todo intento de explicación teórica.

Si bien es cierto que el conocimiento no son los datos que se manejan sino más bien la certeza vivencial, también es verdad que esta última puede no ser compartida. La razón de ello no radica en el hecho de que la certeza sea relativista, sino solamente en la existencia de diferentes certezas. Todos llegamos al mismo conocimiento interno porque éste no es relativo en cuanto a su verdad, pero existen diferentes gradientes y ritmos para alcanzarlo

We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.