Quotes about Experience

I knew from experience that this statement was true, for I myself had been searching for years to discover a practical, working handbook on human relations.

I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing.

The real war will never get in the books.

I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots

To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls. -from Song of the Open Road

What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

To be in any form, what is that? (round and round we go, all of us, and ever come back thither,) If nothing lay more develop'd the quahung in it's callous shell were enough. Mine is no callous shell. I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop, they seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me. I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and I am happy, to touch my person to someone else's is about as much as I can stand.

Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

The pleasure of heaven are with me, and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself . . . . the latter I translate into a new tongue.

Here I sit gossiping in the early candle-light of old age—and my book—casting backward glances over our travel'd road.

Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

Every true spiritual experience means that we have discovered a certain fact in Christ and have entered into that. Anything that is not from Him in this way is an experience that is going to evaporate very soon.