Quotes About Experience

Remember that those who built the tabernacle had experienced a change of diet and had begun to be reconstituted with the element of manna. Only such people can build God's dwelling place. In fact, after being reconstituted, they themselves are the dwelling place of God.

The will of God for us is that we know the all-inclusive Christ, experience Him, and live Him as our life. To know Christ in this way is to have the full knowledge of God's will.

Since the church life is the proper life, it brings in God's blessing. Peace, joy, love, sympathy, kindness, normal living—all are signs of such a blessing of life which comes by the experience of Christ through the cross.

You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away.

For me, I don't expect to have a really amazing meal each time I dine out. Having a good meal with your loved ones - that's what makes the experience.

A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don't have very good service.

Kung Fu, like any art, is a practical affair, not just a question of gathering knowledge. In other words, one becomes proficient through hard, regular practice, not by reading about it.

The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.

You devour a book meant to be read, not because you would fill yourself or have an anxious care to be nourished, but because it contains such stuff as it makes the mind hungry to look upon. Neither do you read it to kill time, but to lengthen time, rather, adding to its natural usury by living the more abundantly while it lasts, joining another's life and thought to your own.

I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again.

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.

Every hooker I ever speak to tells me that it beats the hell out of waitressing.

It is impossible to experience one's own death objectively and still carry a tune.

Sex without love is an empty experience ... but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

I recently turned 60 years old. Practically a third of my life is over.

Sex and death. Two things that come once in a lifetime. But at least after death you're not nauseous.

I was involved in an extremely good example of oral contraception two weeks ago. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, and she said "No."

Yes, but–as empty experiences go–it's one of the best!

I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

How can you bring more light to the ephemeras who are plunged into the fire, because they have already had the light of the fire then.