Quotes about Experience

you never just suffer the thing that you're suffering, but you always also suffer the way that you're suffering that thing.

I want to get you to think about and finally find comfort in the fact that our experience of suffering is never just physical. The pain that stops us in our tracks, that makes us want to pull the covers over our head and not face the day, and at moments makes us wish that we could die, is never just physical.

Ask yourself: What makes your good day a good day? What are the things that tend to make you happy and satisfied? What gives your life a sense of meaning and purpose? What are the things you faithfully pursue, and what are you hoping to experience once you get them? If I watched the video of your last year, what treasure would I conclude you're after?

All the human love we've experienced has been flawed in some way. But not God's; his love is perfect and perfectly steadfast forever.

You can't buy wisdom. You can't get it by hard work or lots of experience. No, wisdom is the result of rescue and relationship.

suffering is not an unusual, surprising experience; it's the experience of everyone who lives in this dramatically broken world.

Running a startup is like being punched in the face repeatedly, but working for a large company is like being waterboarded.

It's important for nerds to realize, too, that school is not life. School is a strange, artificial thing, half sterile and half feral. It's all-encompassing, like life, but it isn't the real thing. It's only temporary, and if you look, you can see beyond it even while you're still in it.

Think of how strange the colours and sights of the world would be for a blind man abruptly made to see or a man deaf from birth hearing the playing of a hundred flutes

The mere adding of years to life is not living.

I know everything I know about.

There is only one way to learn It's through action.