Quotes About Experiences

Your most treasured depravity is child's play beside the experiences we offer.

Your soul knows that you are right where you need to be to have the experiences you need. Trust it.

During the course of an ordinary day, we are constrained by a kind of natural caution, an anticipation of possible difficulties and problems, which tint our consciousness a shade of grey. Talking and thinking about peak experiences makes us realize how lucky we are, and that we can dispense with the caution and constraint. It is like realizing that you have more money in the bank than you thought.

they thought they could use their freedom licentiously and ruthlessly. The only thing that had changed for them was that they were now the oppressors instead of the oppressed. They became instigators, not objects, of willful force and injustice. They justified their behavior by their own terrible experiences.

M]an not only finds his life meaningful through his deeds, his works, his creativity, but also through his experiences, his encountering what is true, good, and beautiful in the world, and, last but not least, his encounter with another, a fellow human being in his very uniqueness.

But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell–like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves a shape distinct from others, is broken, and there is left of all these wrinkles and roughnesses a central oyster of perceptiveness, an enormous eye. How beautiful a street is in winter!

If you reflect upon your own highest moments or peak experiences. You will probably also remember them as moments of great pleasure, even ecstasy.

Spend money on experiences, not stuff. Never rent a storage unit for more than a few months.

In contrast, an educational approach is heavily front-loaded. It expects people to work through a curriculum or set of experiences to be certified as spiritually mature or ready for leadership.

Furthermore, they portray their experiences of the Spirit as a foretaste and confirmation of eschatological hopes and signs that full redemption is near. This contributes to the excitement that one detects in

the quantity of references to the Spirit in the Qumran texts reflects an intense piety and likely the cultivation of religious experiences in which divine blessings of the last days were believed to be already bestowed (corporate worship being a prime setting for such experiences).

Muchacha, te contaré algo: el mundo está lleno de historias. Todas las personas y todas las cosas tienen historias que contar. A algunas de ellas se llega a través de gente como yo, que las relata para que no se olviden. Otras, en cmbio... se viven. ¿Entiendes? (...) Ahora tú debes decidir (...) si seguirás siendo una oyente o, por el contrario, saldrás en busca de tu propia historia

El mundo está lleno de historias. Todas las personas y todas las cosas tienen historias que contar. A algunas de ellas se llega a través de gente como yo, que las relata para que no se olviden. Otras, en cambio… se viven.

Qualunque tipo di relazione implica emozioni, che lasciano in noi un'impronta più duratura. Ricordiamo di aver amato e odiato, abbiamo una vaga idea di cos'è successo, ma nomi, volti, date e dettagli si cancellano facilmente dalla nostra memoria. Per fortuna, le emozioni restano. Altrimenti la nostra personalità, forgiata nel corso di innumerevoli esperienze, si dissolverebbe insieme ai ricordi.

Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'

What literature could accomplish by way of moral education was less instruction than an expansion of our capacity for empathy: "it admits us to experiences other than our own.

but "of all the dangers that in our whole voyage we met with

Although Travels included Polo's experiences closer to home, enlivened with shrewd observations

marked the first time that Pigafetta tested his firsthand experiences against the claims of ancient writers, in this case Pliny

As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.

Eliciting information from Frank Sheeran about his combat experiences was the most difficult part of the interview process. It was two years before he could accept the fact that his combat experience was even worth discussing. And then it became painstaking and stressful for both a respectful questioner and his reluctant subject, with many stops and starts. To

On the other hand, in his book, The Enemy Within, Bobby Kennedy wrote about his experiences and observations as chief counsel for the McClellan Committee hearings on organized crime and labor unions, saying: "We saw and questioned some of the nation's most notorious gangsters and racketeers. But there was no group that better fits the prototype of the old Al Capone syndicate than Jimmy Hoffa and some of his chief lieutenants in and out of the union." Twentieth

By the word genuine I mean biblical, for only in the Bible do we have truth that is indisputably reliable. For this reason, the Bible must be the guide and test for all of our experiences in the spiritual life, for biblical spirituality is the only genuine spirituality.

There is sometimes an odd disposition in this country to dispute as improbable in fiction, what are the commonest experiences in fact.