Quotes About Experience

What moved me was the theme of the harmony which is born only of sacrifice, the twofold experience of love. It's not a question of mutual love: what nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment, it is nothing.

Like I said before, I'm ten now, so I've had some time to figure out some stuff.

Like the sunrise, some things just have to happen — and all you can really do is watch.

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

The first impression is the truth, and all that follows is merely the excuse of memory.

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.

My skin will never work like that again, so aware of the other person that I'm unsure where she ends and I begin. Never again. Never again will my skin be a thing that can so perfectly communicate; in losing my skin to the fire, I also lost the opportunity to make it disappear with another person.

Personal growth must sometimes be measured by distance travelled rather than by current position

What is it like to wear another person's skin?" "I don't have a good answer for that," I said. "It hurts." "Can you remember their stories? Can you feel the love that they felt?

Everyone's past, I try to rationalize, is nothing more than the collection of memories they choose to remember.

Even monkeys fall from trees.

It's our scars that make us who we are.

When I had touched her that first time, it did not feel like the first time I had touched her.

Tea is much more delicate than wine… The people who respond best to the intricacies of tea are people who enjoy wine. — JAMES LABE, tea sommelier/owner, Teahouse Kuan Yin (Seattle)

Assam tea goes very well after white wine. —MICHAEL OBNOWLENNY, Canada's first tea sommelier

What a story this place will tell," she said.

Crisis gives us shape, the contours of sympathetic form, whether we call it forth or not, whether or not it happened to us as we claim—or remember—it did.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

know how to turn a failed experiment into a life lesson

Ada kecenderungan untuk meninggalkan kegagalan dan membiarkannya tertimbusdek masa.Jumlah pembelajaran yang amat banyak terbazir begitu saja kerana kegagalan tidak di kupas sepenuhnya.Jadi pembelajaran sebenar adalah apa yg dipelajari drpd kegagalan.

Friendship often grows out of shared experiences

The alternative to Deism was a more profoundly personal religious experience such as that offered by the revivalism of the Great Awakenings.

He also liked to root around in sales and street markets, and picked up a violin in London, on Farringdon Road, for which he took some lessons.