Quotes About Experience

Yes, Aviendha had heard stories of this place. Those stories had failed to convey the full truth. One could not describe this place. One had to experience it. (A Memory Of Light: Wheel of Time Book 14, Robert Jordan)

Listening to tales of adventures, even dreaming about them, was one thing; having them take place around you would be something else again.

The roof the muscular youth traveled came to an end, and he peered down into the blackness hiding the paving stones of the street, four stories below. His eyes were frozen sapphires, and his face, a square-cut lion's mane of black held back from it by a leather cord, showed several ordinary lifetimes' experience despite its youth.

Some of us have more honor than others, earned by wisdom, actions and experience." Melaine held up a finger. "But it is important—vital, even—that each Wise One be willing to defend her own well. If she believes that she is right, she cannot let herself be shoved aside, even by other Wise Ones, no matter how aged or wise.

Las heridas infligidas al orgullo se recuerdan mucho más tiempo que las del cuerpo.

At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.

I'm an old man," Thom said suddenly, "and sometimes I imagine I see things that can't be, but luckily, I always forget them.

One might have thought that the years would also have taught her patience, but it had done the opposite. The older she grew, the less inclined she was to wait, for she knew she didn't have many years left. Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

Only there was so much to learn, and it sometimes seemed a lifetime would be too short to learn it. Her

The spiritual path has no negative emotions and we are spiritual beings having human experience. The experiences need courage to complete the cleansing process. It defines the design that conforms to the external definitions of what we are.

He pasado la mayor parte de mi vida tratando de olvidar cosas que resultaron no ser verdad.

No somos seres humanos teniendo una experiencia espiritual. Somos seres espirituales teniendo una experiencia humana. –Pierre Tielhard de Chardin, filósofo francés

Life is the best teacher of all. Most of the time, life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around. Each push is life saying, 'Wake up'. There is something I want you to learn.

She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.

The physical and the psychological. They were related, interwoven—two strands of experience, or stimulae, that became knotted.

for life was lived for active memories; the dormant ones lost meaning.

To travel is better than to arrive.

Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes much sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something.

Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past.

We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on good rather than on time....

To arrive in the Rocky Mountains by plane would be to see them in one kind of context,as pretty scenery. But to arrive after days of hard travel across the prairies would be to see them in another way, as a goal, a promised land.

That's the way the world keeps on happening. Be interested in it.