Quotes About Experience

right isn't even the best way to think about the Bible. How about dancing? You dance with it. And to dance, you have to hear its music. And then you move in response to it.

The world is free to be a world. It's free to be beautiful and safe, and it's free to break your heart in a thousand ways. That free.

It's like there's a scale from 1 to 10, and you always would have sworn that someone or something mattered to you with a 10. But then you almost (or you actually do) lose her or him or it or them, and suddenly your heart is filled with a 17 or a 39 or a 4,291 kind of mattering. New capacities, ones you didn't know were possible before, open up inside of you.

We want a little risk in our lives because it keeps things interesting. It wakes us up, it gives us a sense that we're alive and breathing and doing something with our lives.

What's it like? Death? It's like being on holiday with a group of Germans.

The daily papers talk of everything except the daily," he complained. "What's really going on, what we're experiencing, the rest, all the rest, where is it?" That's his deeper question: What about everything else?

Old men want to feel that the experience which has come with their years is valuable, that their advice is valuable, that they possess a sagacity that could be obtained only through experience— a sagacity that could be of use to young men if only young men would ask.

Surrender allows recovering Nice Guys to see each life experience as a gift from the universe to stimulate growth, healing and learning. Instead of asking, Why is this happening to me? the recovering Nice Guy can respond to life's challenges by pondering, What do I need to learn from this situation?

Live and learn, or you don't live long.

Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

Grok' means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the process being observed—to merge, to blend, to intermarry, to lose personal identity in group experience.

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

I refuse to grow younger. I came by my decrepitude the hard way and I propose to enjoy it.

People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.

There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.

one of the few things I've learned is that humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn—when they do, which isn't often—on their own, the hard way.

Marriage is a young man's disaster and an old man's comfort.

Yes, sir, there are things to see and do on the French Riviera without spending money.

I had taken a partner once before-but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open.

Age does not bring wisdom, Ben, but it does give perspective . . . and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

I'm a professional bad example. You can learn a lot by watching me. Or listening to me. Either one.

I came by my decrepitude the hard way and I propose to enjoy it.

Sit back down—and for God's sake quit trying to be as nasty as I am; you don't have my years of practice.