Quotes About Experience

The boy admonished himself for wanting everything to be a story. And now realized that some journeys were not stories. On some journeys, nothing really happened. You just kept taking steps.

we live in different worlds, different realities

We had found nothing, and had been lost several times already in one morning, so this was shaping up into a top travel experience.

It's always stimulating to visit new places, acquire fresh knowledge and expand your portfolio of nightmares.

If life is a book, then read it while you can.

Wherever you go in the world, there will be people to tell you it'll be bigger, stranger, better, more authentic if you take the time to go somewhere else instead; but if you are there, you won't be here. You can only be at one place at a time, and sleep in one bed each night. Sometimes it's good to know where you are when you wake up.

If life is a book, then read it while you can. Don't save up any pages for later, because there might not be one.

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

Education is what you get when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

See me, feel meTouch me, heal me.

I want to age with some dignity.

Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts.

I was surprised at how much I enjoyed meeting fans face to face. They're less scary when they aren't going nuts at a Who show. But then, so am I.

Those who are repetitively traumatized in childhood often learn to survive by over-using one or two of the 4F Reponses. Fixation in any one 4F response not only limits our ability to access all the others, but also severely impairs our ability to relax into an undefended state. Additionally, it strands us in a narrow, impoverished experience of life.

She never learns that real intimacy grows out of sharing all of her experience.

Mindfulness is a perspective of benign curiosity about all of your inner experience. Recovery is enhanced immeasurably by developing this helpful process of introspection. As it becomes more developed, mindfulness can be used to recognize and dis-identify from beliefs and viewpoints that you acquired from your traumatizing family.

Emoting is when we cry, anger out, or verbally ventilate the energy of an inner emotional experience. Feeling, on the other hand, is the inactive process of staying present to internal emotional experience without reacting. In recovery then, feeling is surrendering to our internal experiences of pain without judging or resisting them, and without emoting them out.

The collapse response is an extreme abandonment of consciousness. It appears to be an out-of-body experience that is the ultimate dissociation.

When an emotional experience has shifted, we best support ourselves by accepting its loss as shamelessly as possible and by making a commitment to love and accept ourselves no matter what we feel – no matter what storms come with our emotional weather.