Quotes About Experience

This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)

We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners.

Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

The world just happens to you sometimes, is what I think. And people just gotta keep moving through it, best they can.

If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.

When I was younger, I had wanted to be at the very center of all the action in New York, but I slowly came to realize that there is no one center. The center is everywhere - wherever people are living out their lives. It's a city with a million centers.

What life is, we know not. What life does, we know well. —LORD PERCEVAL

She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of phosphorescence, as though a firework had discharged behind her eyes, and it was over. She felt quiet and warm. For the first conscious moment of her life, her mind was free from wonder, free from worry, free from work or puzzlement. Then, from the middle of that marvelous furred stillness, a thought took shape, took hold, took over. I shall have to do this again.

Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

traveling is the great true love of my life

The little fishing boat anchors right off the shore of Gili Meno. There are no docks here on this island. You have to roll up your pants, jump off the boat and wade in through the surf on your own power. There's absolutely no way to do this without getting soaking wet or even banged up on the coral, but it's worth all the trouble because the beach here is so beautiful, so special

My hypersensitive awareness of time's speed led me to push myself to experience life at a maximum pace. If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.

We must all get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something

I don't want to be afraid of bright colors, or new sounds, or big love, or risky decisions, or strange experiences, or weird endeavors, or sudden changes, or even failure.

Not making a living,' he wrote, on his first trip to Alaska, 'just living.

Martyr says: "Life is pain." Trickster says: "Life is interesting.

I still can't believe I lost my virginity today!" "You'll never miss it," she said. And do you know something? She was absolutely right.

But for me, to experience life through mere reason is to feel about in the dark for God's face while wearing heavy gloves. It is not enough only to study and depict and describe. One must sometimes . . . leap.

Devo farmi le ossa is how they say it in Italian. "I need to make my bones.

I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to us indeed - much closer than we imagine, breathing right through our own hearts. I respond with gratitude to anyone who has ever voyaged to the center of that heart, and who has then returned to the world with a report for the rest of us that God is an experience of supreme love.

We need you to reveal to us what you know, what you have learned, what you have seen and felt. If you are older, chances are strong that you may already possess absolutely everything you need to possess in order to live a more creative life - except the confidence to actually do your work. But we need you to do your work. Whether you are young or old, we need your work in order to enrich and inform our own lives.

to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. a

If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting.