Quotes About Experiences

I never expected that among the most meaningful experiences I'd have as a doctor—and, really, as a human being—would come from helping others deal with what medicine cannot do as well as what it can. But it's proved true, whether with a patient like Jewel Douglass, a friend like Peg Bachelder, or someone I loved as much as my father.

But scientific advances have turned the processes of aging and dying into medical experiences, matters to be managed by health care professionals.

Every one of them had a story to tell.

But scientific advances have turned the processes of aging and dying into medical experiences

we exchanged chitchat for 5 1/2 hours about our respective children, about our ex-old men, all very, very heterocetera.

I want to remember it all, the good times and the bad times, the late nights, the boozing, the dancing into dawns, and all the great and not-so-great people I met and loved in those years…

The deciphering of these experiences requires knowledge of the basic principles of the unconscious dynamics as described by Freud, especially the mechanisms of dreamwork, and also familiarity with certain specific characteristics of the LSD state and its symbolic language.

We are who we are for a lot of reasons

The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. they had become stories

there are lots of things you want to do before your life is over.

As far as I'm concerned, high school sucked when I went, and probably sucks now. I tend to regard people who remember it as the best four years of their lives with caution and a degree of pity.

Don't let the day go by without a handful of fun, for only those we'll be memorable and even intensified through time

You and I have been created with a DNA that drives us to want to live a life with good experiences, forces us to human growth and leads us to the contribution of something beyond our understanding.

One cannot trust a path, because the path is different for each person who takes it. One can only trust a person to choose the path that best represents their values and experiences.

Wisdom comes from making mistakes, having the courage to face them, and make adjustments moving forward based upon the knowledge aquired through those experiences.

Age is only a number. Maturity to a large extent is dependent on your exposure to life, its experiences and your lessons from them.

The universe doesn't waste anything. Sometimes, we just don't have standing to see how events or experiences are important.

I am very grateful for all the opportunities life has given me.

In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.

What I love the most about modeling is that it opens you a lot of different doors of opportunities and takes you to many different places, which then put you in touch with various people and cultures

Symbols are more than the basic units of culture; they are screening devices to distance us from our experiences. They classify and reduce, "to do away with," in Leakey and Lewin's remarkable phrase, "the otherwise almost intolerable burden of relating one experience to another.

You're the most terrible snob, Clark." "What? Me?" "You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are "not that sort of person"." "But, I'm not." "How do you know? You've done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?

Come on. You have to live so that you have something to write about.

Nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.