The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.
I do not want the things I do to be easy and predictable. I want them to be real.
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.
Everything I have now is so real, so vivid.
I am called to listen to the sound of my own heart -- to write the story within myself that demands to be told at that particular point in my life. And if I do this faithfully, clothing that idea in the flesh of human experience and setting it in a true place, the sound from my heart will resound in the reader's heart.
It's important for teenagers, young adults, parents, teachers, really everyone to see what the true High School experience is.
When its true, when it's right, love can give you the kind of joy that you can't get from any other experience.
For those that were never wounded by love, they will never be able to say: “I lived”. Because they haven’t.
What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.
Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.
At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, 'I was always happy.' Hopefully, we will be able to say, 'I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.'
I never deny a true experience in one shot.
A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.
Remember, if you have not known sadness together with happiness you have not known anything yet. Then your happiness is superficial; your sadness is also superficial. Then you have been living on the surface; then you have known only the waves; you have not known the depth of the ocean that you are.
No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.
The authentic experience, where is that? Living the moment. That is something that we're losing.
I want to show people what it's really like to be in this industry. Because they only really see one side - the glamorous side - but there's so much more to it.
We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted article.
What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet been closed. He still experiences the moment he lives in.
A World Cup would only be a true experience if I were wearing the Brazilian shirt. Otherwise, it would just be like playing for a club.
We have a religious renaissance today in America, as many people say. I would say this religious renaissance, ninety percent of it is the greatest danger true religious experience has ever been confronted with.
But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.
I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.
