Quotes about Experience

speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers distorted the word poetry to mean—in order to cover a desperate wish for imagination without insight.

Being out of work brought a lot of new and starkly instructive experiences.

Moulmein for food, Mandalay for conversation, Rangoon for ostentation

For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.

When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He could have no concern for mine and no exact conception of it. That answer is too personal to each man. But in giving himself what he wanted, he gave me a great experience.

But those who were young had no thought left for spring and those who still thought were not young any longer.

Why were you happier when you were a kid? Because you didn't know anything. The more you know, the sadder you get.

In my experience, you will truly serve only what you love because service is love made visible. If you love your friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money and, if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself and you will have only yourself. So no winning. Instead, try to love others and serve others and hopefully find others that love and serve you in return.

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

Learn what you can, teach what you know, live how you ought.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.