Quotes about Experience

I just love Ottawa because I was able to develop a lot of things, my own character as a man.

No doubt, some people are quantitatively less busy than others and some much more so, but that doesn't change the shared experience: most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

Patrick: How do you know so much about dating? You're a teenage girl. Tess: Because I'm a teenage girl.

It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are.

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

I have almost never written about my experience as a soldier on the battlefield, because I tried, and I found that it is beyond my capacity to describe the battlefield. The battlefield consists mostly of smells, and it is very difficult to describe smells in words - very difficult indeed.

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them.

My biggest lesson I've learned about love is to keep on loving. Love is love it's amazing. It's fine. It hurts. It's probably one of the best experiences in life.

Live, love and learn

Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.

You have become acquainted with the characters. You have joined them in the imaginary world wherein they dwell, consented to the laws of their society, breathed its air, tasted its food, traveled its highways. Now you must follow them through their adventures.

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.