Quotes about Experience

The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.

I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'

God is in the darkness and God is in the wilderness. I now know that by personal experience.

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

I think you miss out on a lot of stuff when you're so protected and isolated.

Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.

Indeed it is not usual for the young to grieve.

Teiresias: Yes well, what is it they say, you're as young as you feel? Kadmos: We must get to the mountain. Should we call a cab? Teiresias: That doesn't sound very Dionysian. Kadmos: Good point. Let's walk.

Sometimes life makes you older than your age.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.