Quotes about Experience

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

People talk of life's storms as if they are universal experiences. But they're not. Some people hear thunder while others touch lightning.

It's our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we're nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it's worth it.

For the third time since I began, my walk has been delayed. In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions---but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey. No matter how much I, or the rest of humanity wishes otherwise, life is not lived in smooth, downhill expressways, but in the obscure, perilous trails and rocky back roads of life where we stumble and feel our way through the fog of the unknown.

Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us.

He had sensory processing disorder—something we didn't know about back then—and was highly sensitive to smells.

Life's book is written on the heart.

college education does not make one wise; it just fills your head with others' voices.

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine

I don't want to go to Peru." How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

People who've had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don't know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!