Quotes about Experience

The slower journey allows time for maturity and experience to shape you into the person who comfortably fits into your destiny.

When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

Life is full of choices, ma'am. Most we live once, then move on and forget. But others" - he narrowed his eyes - "we live a thousand times over and remember for the rest of our days. What's impostant is knowin' how to tell 'em apart. And then decidin' if you's willin' to pay the price. 'Cause choices...they always come at a price.

It is true that back in the '60s I was quite frustrated that I never got a chance to speak or be interviewed.

When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.

The single dynamic that helps people be most aware of God and most experiencing the fruit of the Spirit is gratitude.

Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.