Quotes About Experience

Suffering, gracefully accepted, refines the human heart, and the experience of darkness sharpens the vision of the spirit.

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

Running a startup is like being punched in the face repeatedly, but working for a large company is like being waterboarded.

It's important for nerds to realize, too, that school is not life. School is a strange, artificial thing, half sterile and half feral. It's all-encompassing, like life, but it isn't the real thing. It's only temporary, and if you look, you can see beyond it even while you're still in it.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

I didn't suffer for Jesus in prison. No! I was with Jesus and I experienced his very real presence, joy, and peace every day. It's not those in prison for the sake of the gospel who suffer. The person who suffers is he who never experiences God's intimate presence.

The discrepancy between the vacationists' good times and Isolde's unfortunate experience is more than disgusting

Think of how strange the colours and sights of the world would be for a blind man abruptly made to see or a man deaf from birth hearing the playing of a hundred flutes

Intelligence has many shades, but rage is the same colour everywhere. Humiliation tastes the same to everyone.

The mere adding of years to life is not living.

Those who have witnessed the deep truths of mathematics, Bell wrote, "have experienced something no jellyfish has ever felt".

I know everything I know about.

"I see psychotherapy is an art grounded in science. The art consists of connecting with a patient where he or she is, then using solid evidentiary methodologies and interventions to move the patient toward a reparative experience." The Wall Street Journal

When a person reaches a certain age, there are many things he or she can feign: happiness is not one of them -- Jorge Luis Borges

The past doesn't change, does it?" "It's still there, same as it ever was. But we see it differently as we get older.

The amazing thing about being a bike rider is that you always know from the first turn of the pedals what sort of a day you are going to have.

what brings you happiness?" "Mr. Cohen . . ." "Benny." "Benny, I don't really think much about it. I just go about my life day to day. Stuff happens. Some good. Some bad. I don't know what's at the end of the rainbow, or even if there is a rainbow.

The sum total of our life experiences guides us in a way our conscious minds could never decipher. We make choices without realizing why and trigger events we never foresee. And always we rationalize who we are and why we act the way we do.

Granny said. "Only fellow my age I know still got lead in his pencil.

Dammit, she'd been warned about Solomon. He always tested new prosecutors, baited them into losing their cool, lured them into mistrials. And she wasn't totally "new." She'd handled arraignments and preliminary hearings for eight months. And hadn't she won her first two felony trials? Of course, neither one had involved Steve Slash-and-Burn Solomon

In the end, we march along a path drawn by our own moral compass. The sum total of our life experiences guides us in a way our conscious minds could never decipher. We make choices without realizing why and trigger events we never foresee. And always we rationalize who we are and why we act the way we do.

We give ourselves the name Homo sapiens, which means 'wise man,' but of course, we are not born that way, and we don't gain wisdom from books. We learn how to live by living. Vive ut vivas—

what I call the "first love syndrome," found not only in what we most like in online systems but in movies, television shows, and novels.The principle is that we most love what we first experience

Trauma is a unique phenomenon all on its own, as if it is an entity in and of itself.