Moses sees the bush as it actually is. . . . All that is living burns. This is the fundamental fact of nature. And Moses saw it with his own two eyes directly. That glimpse of the real world — of the world as it is known to God — is not a world of isolated things but of processes in concert. God tells Moses, "Take off your shoes, because the ground where you are standing is holy ground." He is asking Moses to experience in his own body what the burning bush experiences: a living connection between heaven and earth, the life that stretches out like taffy between our father the sun and our mother the earth. If you do not believe this, take off your shoes and stand in the grass or in the sand or in the dirt. —William Bryant Logan More about this quote Tags: God experience nature earth heaven Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. —Oscar Levant More about this quote Tags: memory experience happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never even meet. —Mary Kay Blakely More about this quote Tags: soul experience influence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." . . . I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions, like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects to "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar. —Jeffrey Eugenides More about this quote Tags: regret experience happiness joy sadness emotion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We know nothing of what will happen in the future, but in the analogy of experience. —Abraham Lincoln More about this quote Tags: experience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. —Albert Camus More about this quote Tags: experience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. —Aldous Huxley More about this quote Tags: experience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Experience teaches only the teachable. —Aldous Huxley More about this quote Tags: learning experience teachable Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. —Barry LePatner More about this quote Tags: experience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. —Eleanor Roosevelt More about this quote Tags: experience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. —Franklin P. Jones More about this quote Tags: experience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes. —James A. Froude More about this quote Tags: experience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. —James Boswell More about this quote Tags: experience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: experience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know way of judging the future but by the past. —Patrick Henry More about this quote Tags: experience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email