Quotes About Experience

I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music.

I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for, like, two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.

Standing in the back of the dark opera house and gazing at the huge stage before them, gay with gold-scrolled scenery and sumptuously costumed singers, the air vivid with bright music, was one of the most enthralling experiences of Blanche's life. For a time, she forgot her doubts about reality in the sheer delight of illusion. But, as Rose reminded her during the intermission, perhaps it wasn't illusion. Perhaps it was a glimpse of what reality was really like.

You're drinking in the joy of life,' Bear told her when she tried to explain why she was laughing. 'There's so much opportunity for drinking deeply of it, and we very rarely do it. When you do, it makes you feel alive all over.

You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.

I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child - it's ok to make mistakes.

Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.

Everyone has a story to tell. You just have to listen.

In other words, our spiritual journey occurs not in spite of the ambiguous and problematic experience of our actual life but because of it.

We have a wild, passionate, rampant ; for experience, for being alive, for the tasting and touching of our world. It is completely unhinged. It's reckless, this love we have.

Happy the old people who after long experience and many trials reach this superior simplicity of true wisdom, which they had glimpsed from a distance in their childhood! With this meaning it can be said that a beautiful life is a thought of youth realized in maturity.

Qué pasa, qué pasa. Y no sentí miedo. Y no sentí tristeza. Y no sentí nada. Porque todo eso lo había sentido tanto que ya ni cuenta me daba si era que siempre lo estaba sintiendo o si ya no lo podía volver a sentir aunque quisiera.

The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.

I came to realize that my path to knowledge would not lead me to libraries, professors, universities, and studies. My path to knowledge was through living life and experiencing reality. I could learn plenty secondhand, but nothing was ever to surpass the experiences I had in the wilderness. All my knowledge of social, scentific, and religious issues has been acquired through personal experience.

I'm primarily concerned with what happens inside a person when they encounter the mountains. When you climb a mountain, you come back down as a different person. We don't change the mountain by climbing it; we ourselves change.

VeÅ¡keré jeho zkuÅ¡enosti jsou nyní bezcenné, jeho energie vyÅ¡umÄ›la, z jeho odvahy z?stala jen pýcha Å¡ílence.

I regret the immaturity with which I approached the problems and tasks of the ministry but I do not regret the years devoted to the parish.

Practise what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.

Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.

Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.

Mensen moeten niet trouwen,' zei Panda. 'Kind, praat geen onzin,' zei Jens. 'Mensen moeten zoveel mogelijk trouwen. Het leven is maar kort, al lijkt het je nu misschien lang, en het is de enige manier om in ieder geval een paar mensen goed gekend te hebben, voor het grondwater je bloed wegspoelt en de wormen je hart leegvreten. En het is de enige manier om jezelf te leren kennen. dat heeft natuurlijk z'n nadelen.

Just as faith teaches us that the sovereign felicity of the other life consists in the contemplation of the divine majesty alone, so even now we can learn from experience that a similar meditation, although incomparably less perfect, allows us to enjoy the greatest happiness we are capable of feeling in this life.

Is there anything more intimate or more internal than pain?

I was thus led to infer that the ground of our opinions is far more custom and example than any certain knowledge.