Quotes About Experience

With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations. I don't have the energy to start over again. To learn new skills or fight my own personality or figure out diesel engines.

There in bed, happiness comes over me. Not like something that belongs to me, but like a wheel of fire rolling through the room and the world.

Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is the only thing you have left.

Deep inside I know that trying to figure things out leads to blindness, that the desire to understand has a built-in brutality that erases what you seek to comprehend. Only experience is sensitive. But maybe I'm both weak and brutal.

deep inside I know that trying to figure things out leads to blindness, that the desire to understand has a built-in brutality that erases what you seek to comprehend. Only experience is sensitive.

To touch time. That, I suppose, is what life for me has been about since then.

Reading snow is like listening to music. To describe what you've read is like explaining music in writing.

The Bible isn't a list of requirements; rather, it's a list of results after experiencing God's love. Following God isn't an action but a reaction. And if you have to painstakingly motivate yourself or others to serve God "because it's the right thing to do," you've already missed the very foundations of biblical Christianity.

The crucial question one comes back to is the examination without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.

Meine Wissenschaft gibt mir Wachträume, die andere nicht einmal im Schlafen haben." Peter Handke: Langsame Heimkehr. Erzählung. Frankfurt am Main 1994, S. 63.

my conviction that the Holocaust is no less historically explicable than any other human experience, though the job is not easy.

I'm told women scream when they give birth because of the intense pain. And I think about how easily life can just slide away, like thawing ice. And how it's only the living that scream.

We have traveled. Now you will be the path I will walk I will walk Over you.

One of the things that happens to people as they get older, and especially to women on the other side of middle age, is that people forget to notice.

You lose yourself and just about vanish and the painting asserts and fills and flows over the dam and down into the streambed of everything you have ever experienced and thought, and carries you both on a current that takes you into a country that neither of you have ever seen. Where you have never been.

I had painted a lot of landscapes, had stood before many while they burned their remote beauty into my skin, but had never done both at the same time. Don't know why. I was comfortable painting indoors and I liked best to retrieve those images from memory where they might be stained by awe and jumbled together with other things I loved. Now that I had tried the other, I wanted to do more.

He's a cocky SOB. He knew the Nick Adams Stories. Probably a frustrated English major who graduated from college qualified to drive a cab.

Now in her mid-sixties, she had "common-lawed"—her words—old Ansel, who used to manage ranches in California and now spent most of his days rereading the Russians. Chekhov, Turgenev, Pushkin. Ren had once asked him why he loved them, as he himself found the going mostly too dour. "I don't love them," Ansel had said. "You don't?" "Nothing worth serious study is lovable.

People with good memories are liable to be crushed by the weight of their suffering. Only those with bad memories, the fittest to survive, can live on. - Lu Xun

There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language.

A church characterized by a small experience of forgiveness will be characterized by a small expression of love.

Mystery is not an argument for the existence of God; mystery is an experience of the existence of God.

Life's not some slot machine in an arcade with a sign that flashes up saying 'I'm sorry, you have been killed. Would you like another go?' But we might get put through the same test each time, get faced with the same situations until we've learned how to cope.

You know, that's one of the ten thousand things I love about you. You're always looking for the good in people.' 'And you're always looking for the bad?' 'That's what twenty years of being a copper does for you.