Quotes About Experience

Ah, you begin to acquire wisdom,' said Sprag. 'Irritation is one of the first signs.

breadth of experience is worthwhile in my estimation. Consider this another nugget of wisdom: you don't want to end up so lost in your power and omniscience that you forget how to take a shit.

You will find that your taste buds have a memory of about 3 weeks.

Without the threat of suffering, we can't experience true joy.

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places

It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'

And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.

What's happening is merely what's happening. How you feel about it is another matter.

Life (as you call it) is an opportunity for you to know experientially what you already know conceptually. You need learn nothing to do this. You need merely remember what you already know, and act on it.

Each book holds an experience and an adventure." [ Letters of Note ; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]

It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service.

My view of "attraction," then, involves a high degree of overlap of their experience with a real person and the wished-for image in their heads.

If you're wondering what's wrong with Fenway Park in the first place, you're not the only one. Fenway is special precisely because it has what modern stadiums lack: seats that, while often cramped, offer the best views in baseball; and the sense that, if you squint, that could be Smoky Joe Wood pitching to Ty Cobb out there instead of Jeff Fassero and Bobby Higginson.

And each one there has one thing shared; They have sweated beneath the same sun, Look up in wonder at the same moon, And wept when it was all done, For being done too soon.

You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

I walked with them, as crowds have that effect on me, I want to do what they do, to journey towards some point of revelation, which of course never comes

In the four years I had spent in Southeast Asia, I had changed, and so had the people back home. And I could not communicate effectively about these differences in perception.

but sometimes you can go along, years even, and not feel like you're growing up at all, and then there's times when you age a ton, like, in a couple 'a seconds, you know?

I think all that is one of the most important things in human life–shared experience, learning, and let's face it, a whole lot of fun.

setting off," when the world both contracts and expands at the same time.

enchantment is the means through which we may gain access to sacredness. Entertainment is the means through which we distance ourselves from it.

But what I am claiming here is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. Our television set keeps us in constant communion with the world, but it does so with a face whose smiling countenance is unalterable. The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining, which is another issue altogether. To