Quotes about Experience

Time isn't just a fleeting thing. It never moves forward without engraving its mark upon the heart.

I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question. "Tell me," I said. "You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones.

Tragedia maturiz?rii nu const? în faptul c? ne pierdem copil?ria în simplitatea ei, ci în aceea c? ne pierdem inocenÈ›a în sublimul ei.

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But there is more to it than that. My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known—not the famous, not saints, but

God is not a place or an eperience or a feeling.

Oh, because a dream is a personal experience of that deep, dark ground that is the support of our conscious lives, and a myth is the society's dream. The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of the society, you are in good accord with your group. If it isn't, you've got an adventure in the dark forest ahead of you.

think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

suffering," he said, "is mortality itself, which is the prime condition of life.

Where were you born? On a battlefield, [Yossarian] answered. No, no. In what state were you born? In a state of innocence.

It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.

He had poor eyesight and chronic sinus trouble, which made war especially exciting for him, since he was in no danger of going overseas.