Quotes About Experience

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.

it is safer to wander without a guide through an unmapped country than to trust completely a map traced by men who came only as tourists and often with biased judgement.

What people really seek, even if they project it sometimes onto outer objects, is the feeling of being alive.

Several Nations from the United States and Canada are embodied in this collection. Even so, no individual writer attempts to speak for his or her entire Nation, only from personal experiences dealing with non-Indians as well as Indians. Sadly, for whatever reasons, some of our worst enemies are on occasion our own people. The

Precise language surprises like a dancer's extra second of stillness in mid-air; word and experience come together in an irreproducible moment of epiphanic delight. The next time the word appears, it may have a different feel or color or emphasis. Contexts change; usage changes; assigned meaning shifts; words accrue rings of history like trees and become more dense with life.

Health and disease don't just happen to us. They are active processes issuing from inner harmony or disharmony, profoundly affected by our states of consciousness, our ability or inability to flow with experience. This recognition carries with it implicit responsibility and opportunity.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.

But she continued to wonder what the fish tasted like, so brilliant and vivid pink. Would it taste pink?

Before I die I hope everything happens to me. I want to feel rotten and bawl, and then I want to feel good and laugh.

What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar.

The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.

To intentionally pass on opportunity is to intentionally pass on living.

If you manage to live long enough, most of your greatest fears become fond memories to look back on.

To be afraid of sorrow is to be afraid of joy also.

I had spent so much of life being afraid or living the memory of being afraid.

Join the Rienish navy. See unusual sights. Never sleep with the lights out again.

The only people who fear death are the ones who haven't lived.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.