Quotes About Experience

My celebrity memoir title: It Was the Worst of Times, It Was the Worst of Times.

What a returning soldier needs most when leaving war is not a mental health professional but a living community to whom his experience matters. There is usually such a community close at hand: his or her surviving comrades. Men and women returning from combat should debrief as units, not as isolated individuals. Unit rotation [in my understanding, the lack of it] is the most important measure for secondary prevention of combat PTSD.

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

To know your organism, you must eat it.' Not just the flies: the pupae. And not just to horrify people, but to know.

Nothing except love itself touches us so intimately and forcibly as a good story told exactly right.

There will, one day, be an existence for us that will be the ultimate in reality and experience, and we can understand this truth only by faith. What we see by faith is true reality.

Gut-wrenching questions honor God. Despair directed at God is a way of encountering him, opening ourselves up to the One and only Someone who can actually do something about our plight. And whether we, like Greg, collide with the Almighty or simply bump up against him, we cannot be the same. We never are when we experience God.

Suffering doesn't teach you about yourself from a textbook—it teaches you from experience. It empties you so that by faith you can be filled with His Spirit.

people will tell you were they have gone, they'll tell you where to go, but until you get there for yourself you never really know.

everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow

And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game.

Life was good, one had only to live it.

Cada uno de nuestros duelos es único y cada manera de afrontarlos es irrepetible…

La búsqueda en cuestión... es un camino sin metas pero con grandes satisfacciones; es un recorrido sin mapas pero con un rumbo; es un sendero único y personal pero abierto a todos; es una ruta sin final pero que puede dejarse en cualquier momento; es un viaje que algunas veces no es el resultado de una elección y que, a pesar de eso, está siempre lleno de decisiones.

De hecho, somos quienes somos gracias a todo lo perdido y a cómo nos hemos conducido frente a esas pérdidas.

Vivo y aprendo, vivo y maduro, vivo y crezco.

Nosotros los padres no pudimos hacerlo mejor. Con lo que sabíamos, con lo que teníamos, quisimos, probamos, intentamos... algunas cosas nos salieron bien y otras no.

Gerçek benim düÅŸündüÄŸüm gibi deÄŸil. Olmas? gerektiÄŸi gibi deÄŸil. Bana olaca??n? söyledikleri gibi deÄŸil. Yar?n olaca?? gibi deÄŸil. Benim d???mdaki gerçek neyse odur.

Aprendí, muy pequeña que la vida tiene un lado oscuro, y que ése me había tocado a mi

No sabemos lo larga que es nuestra historia pero sentimos su peso.

You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.

When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.

I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end.