Quotes About Experience

Simt c? port în mine dou? inimi, e ca ?i cum a? tr?i o a doua via?? — cea din vis.

Skúsenos? bez vzdelania je viac ako vzdelanie bez skúsenosti.

In a number of workshops, I have asked people whether they have had one or more experiences that they would identify as an experience of God and, if so, to share them in small groups. On average, 80 percent of the participants identify one or more and are eager to talk about them. They also frequently report that they had never before been asked that question in a church setting or given an opportunity to talk about it.

rather than God being "out there" in the heights, God is known in the depths of personal experience.

You had to serve out here in the Middle East to understand fully the feeling of danger, even threat, that was never far away, even in countries generally regarded as friendly to America.

this is a culture that does not worship youth and cheap television celebrity. Those tribesmen treasure, above all things, knowledge, experience, and wisdom.

It's been said that only the very rich understand the difference between themselves and the poor, and only the truly brilliant understand the difference between themselves and the relatively dumb. Well, only men who have gone through

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.

In a minor way it was, he suspected, like Machu Picchu, or the Great Pyramid—a place you always forgot you'd never have to yourself. People imagined visiting them alone, climbing the steps in quiet contemplation of the past. They forgot about the stalls selling T-shirts and kebabs, forgot the tour buses of sunburned Americans, forgot velvet ropes and security guards.

everyone had their own reality, and yours was just one version.

one to see a trucker

To learn the true value of something, all you had to do was lose it.

It had been a surprise—and yeah, okay, a pleasure—to realize how very good he was at being bad.

There was a skill to organizing your life into neatly bundled anecdotes, and he lacked it.

To learn the true value of something, all you had to do was lose it. Brody poured drinks in crystal tumblers.

Reminded you that everyone had their own reality, and yours was just one version.

The problem with the best moment in your life is that every other moment is worse

One of the reasons that people enjoy coming to a great restaurant is that when an extraordinary meal is placed in front of them, they feel honored, respected, and even a little bit loved.

You have life written all over you. Some people bear tragedy on their faces; loss, death, whatever it might be. But you have life.

Anything that might occur in 'story-time' could ultimately not be stranger than the utter oddity of the 'real-world.

Something else: it always struck me as troubling that the words in books are printed in black and white, when life is anything but. The binary colour of words on a page give the sense of simplicity and clarity. But life doesn't work like that.

There never was a story that was happy through and through