Quotes About Experience

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

We need to begin by recognizing the validity and value of our own experience for the corporate good. Contrary to the distorted view of theology often communicated by our teachers in the past, our own experience is relevant to the theology of the whole community. If our theological understanding has no connection with lived experience, it has no validation of its own and becomes part of the dead weight that burdens us instead of the meaningful context that illuminates our lives.

I suggest that we need a generation or two not of theory but of an attempt to discover the real phenomena of eros.

One has to have the experience of really believing before one can have the thrill of liberation.

All the terms discussed in Part Two are evidences of this abstractness, simulacra of thought and experience, hardly better than slogans, which take the place of reflection.

For modern men who live in a world transformed by abstractions and who have themselves been transformed by abstractions, the only way to experience man again is by thinking these abstractions through with the help of thinkers who did not share them and who can lead us to experiences that are difficult or impossible to have without their help.

Male experience is what patriarchal culture uses to represent human experience, even when it is women who most often live it.

Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

Unlike her, nothing had yet happened to him.

Fifteen, that's the age when the only world event that counts is whatever mood you're in that day.

Don't have time for memories, too busy making them

Life unravels as it's lived. It can't be woven back together.

Though experience should be our guide . . . and we see mistakes are common at the age of twenty-three, it must be acknowledged that not every youthful feeling begins unworthily and ends in error. If this were the case, mankind would have perished long ago.

I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.

A guest chef would come in and shoot five shows in two days. Most had no TV training and little on-camera experience. They were thrown onto the air and did their shows live to tape, no stopping allowed for any reason, even small fires or bleeding.

Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.

People say that time is a great healer. Which people? What are they talking about? I think some feelings you experience in your life are written in indelible ink and the best you can hope for is that they fade a little over the years.

For men, life is a highway. For women it is a roadmap.

Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go.

There is the before. And then there is the after. Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go.

Allison Winn Scotch