Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.
I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man.
Never trust a man who teaches about death but yet had no real experience at all about it.
Real experience is knowledge
He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.
One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad.
How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments...
And I learned that it's a bad idea to curse if you're in trouble, but a good idea to sing, if you can.
The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one's eyes without seeing anything.
Green did not know how cold it was, thinking that a desire to show that it should lead to the pleasures that, in solitude and imagination, felt that Murray had to take over. That wouldn't get.
Now I think it's true, as you say, ”said Mahamut - that what we know how to feel knows how to say, even if sometimes the emotion gives the tongue.
Now I think it's true, as they say, ”Mahamut said - that what we know how to feel knows how to say, even if sometimes the emotion gives the tongue.
Strange how something good can come from something horrible.
I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.
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The rain was pattering hypnotically on the plane's exterior.
He wondered often how he would ever recognize the first chill, flush, twinge, ache, belch, sneeze,...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?