Quotes About Experience

When we are depressed, we have a sense of being deadened and blocked. When we fully experience our sadness, we may not feel on top of the world, but we will feel very much alive and may even have a sense of wellbeing. Most importantly, when we experience our emotions fully, we will eventually move through them to a new feeling space. On the other hand, if we avoid our emotions, we tend to stay stuck in a particular emotional state.

He won't remember any of this, he's too young and it's too painful. Children are wonderfully self-preserving. They filter memory, cleanse and sanitise it, unless it's too awful to renounce. And this isn't. Or is it? These gummy spots of time that inextricably adhere when so much more is erased, how do we account for their tenacity?

On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank.

It actually giggles at you as it goes by.

College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

Goldwater's approach to any political problem invariably derived from the evidence of his own eyes.

Stories are "how we organize the chaos of experience into the order we require just a carry-on." Joan Gideon

A candidate with no experience they would package as a citizen politician, a lifetime hack as an elder statesman.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

The difference between old friends and new friends is that new friends just haven't let you down yet.

No one learns from the road walked by another man.

He told me about his ex-girlfriend. She'd died for about eight minutes. When she recovered he asked her what was it like. She told him to describe "blue".

My dad had a framed picture of a surfer on a giant wave in his den. The wave always looked so huge. My Papa told me that was life. This giant thing trying to get you that you had to find pleasure in riding.

Knowledge without application eventually becomes boring and unfulfilling

I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera. The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.

Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate sourvenir is a broader perspective.

Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.

Travel is intensified living … and one of the last great sources of legal adventure.

Fear is for people who don't get out very much.

Europe's reluctance to go to war frustrates some Americans. I believe their relative pacifism is because Europeans know the reality of war, while most Americans do not. …. It's easier to feel detached when a war is something you watch on the nightly news, rather than something that killed your grandfather or destroyed your hometown.

To me, understanding people and their lives is what travel is about, no matter where you go.

Psychedelics exert their effects by a complex blending of three factors: set, setting, and drug.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.