Quotes About Experience

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips – biblical god trips, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake trips. Non-readers, what do they get? (They get the munchies.)

When we're young we have faith in what is seen, but when we're old we know that what is seen is traced in air and built on water.

As for justice, who has once seen it done?

might not this "something else" be the living address of the Word of God spoken and responded to in faith, which is indeed present in, experienced by, and celebrated in the liturgical act, but in no way bound to that act but bound instead to the Spirit of God?

Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have "experienced" rather than what we have learned intellectually.

Experimental and clinical psychologists have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the human nervous system cannot tell the difference between an "actual" experience and an experience imagined vividly and in detail.

your nervous system cannot tell the difference between a real experience and one that is vividly imagined.

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. —William E. Gladstone

Perhaps most important of all, we will learn how chronically unhappy people have learned to enjoy life by "experiencing" happiness!

create experience and control it, in the laboratory of our minds.

create experience and control it, in the laboratory of our minds. Both experimental and clinical psychology have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the human nervous system cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and an experience imagined vividly and in detail.

After you've done this, you can go back into your past and find a "successful" memory, an occasion when you did something well. Again, this could be as simple as tying your shoes for the first time or writing your name in school. When it happened is irrelevant. How "big" the success was doesn't matter either. All that matters is that the memory triggers a positive, happy, feel-good experience in you right now.

This book has been designed not merely to be read but to be experienced.

It is not the child who is taught about love but the child who has experienced love that grows into a healthy, happy, well-adjusted adult.

Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have experienced rather than what we have learned intellectually.

The mere reading of words will not show you or give you the experience of truth.

YOUR CASE HISTORY List here an experience from your past that is explained by the principles given in this chapter:

Both experimental and clinical psychology have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the human nervous system cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and an experience imagined vividly and in detail.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings and not count the years.

Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

Youth is given. One must put it awaylike a doll in a closet,take it out and play with it onlyon holidays.How to Be Old [1963]