Quotes About Experience

As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.

Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.

When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.

When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.

Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee.

Somewhere in the fear and chaos, there is a clarity that few will ever experience.

I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.

There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before.

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

Horror films don't create fear. They release it.

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

The things we fear the most have already happened to us.

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

I still look forward to doing things I've never done before. But the fear beforehand is always worse than the actual moment.

When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you know it is healed.

A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.

Fear is for people who don't get out very much.

There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.

The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.