Experience Quotes

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Enjoy good moments while they last, then make sure they're not the last

Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.

Why don't I just go against all reason, ignore past experiences and fall in love with you?

I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.

A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.

We cannot see Beauty till we let go our hold of it. It was Buddha who conquered the world, not Alexander - this is untrue when stated in dry prose - oh when shall we be able to sing it? When shall all these most intimate truths of the universe overflow the pages of printed books and leap out in a sacred stream like the Ganges from the Gangotrie?

The most fulfilling adventures happen when you start your journey without knowing where you’re going, because only then are you free to experience the unexpected detours you’re meant to take.

Its amazing to contemplate what human mind is capable of, incredible functionality, specialty of describing something beautifully without even experiencing called the work of imagination, carries us to a world we have never been before.

after life has broken you open, perhaps you may create art

Would he as well neglect the perishing person, wouldn’t he help to get up, would he turn away? I think I know the answer is obvious. He was flying so high above each of us that after falling down he got below everybody else. To be precise, he was simply knocked down. And we, none of us, just did nothing. Thus, with everybody’s silent acquiescence, the best of us were eliminated in order to let others decay.

Experience The Wholeness Of Purpose Is To Be Equipped To Face Ungodly Governmental Policies

You never know whether you've already experienced your greatest moment or your worst

Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint a well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the godly as well as the ungodly, never look to live a contented or comfortable life, nor ever think thou has truly learned the art of suffering (383).

Eventually, it boils down to two choices – do I wish to experience this physical reality primarily through joy or do I want to experience it through suffering? That’s all there is to it. And since each person eventually works their way toward the realization that conscious expansion can happen through joy rather than suffering – enlightenment is a natural byproduct.

I’ve always said we can’t all experience everything, but we can all learn from each other’s experiences, making learning curves shorter and pitfalls avoidable.

God help us for we knew the worst too young.

teach your brain now .. don't wait until life teach you !

The wonder of life shouldn't be squandered on insignificant or unbeneficial experiences.

Small children can be startled by the most mundane of noises. A car door from a distance can sound like the sky falling down when heard for the very first time.

The more you concentrate on what you discover that you will be good for you to pursue, the more experienced you will be while doing it.

I consider everything that happened to be precious moments of my life.The pain.The suffering.The fun…And I am here right now, because everyone was there for me.I couldn’t have accomplished anything by standing still, without anybody’s help.I treasure every moment I have spent here.Unlucky?I feel pretty lucky.This is my resolve.”-Sawada Tsunayoshi-

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

Life gives us a flair of awareness in the breeze of our daily journey and offers a free reign to explore what we are, to experience what we are not and to find out what we may become: a free ride until everything melts down into the indistinct and indefinite, while walking up to the ultimate gate of non-existence. ("Living on probation")

Other than along certain emotional tangents there was little in the book that felt as if it had actually been lived. It was a fiction produced by someone who knew only fictions, The Tempest as written by isolate Miranda, raised on the romances in her father's library.

Your calling is buried in your background and life experience

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Proving himself to himself was no small matter.

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no final solution. Just conflict.

The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they've made you the man that you are.

Living life with contentment is the greatest well-being.

Missing you,I missed a part of meI shared with you that’s now gone.Missing you, when really, it was the way you made me feeland the things you made us do.Missing you I shouldn’t be.But I can’t help missing who I was with you.Missing you,I missed and missed so much of the world and wasn’t even missed in return.

Knowledge is knowing the depth of the ocean. Wisdom is knowing till where to swim.

It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement.

You can quarrel with a person's ideas, but not with their experience.

I stepped from Plank to PlankSo slow and cautiouslyThe Stars about my Head I felt,About my Feet the Sea.I knew not but the nextWould be my final inch —This gave me that precarious GaitSome call Experience.

You can't give love when you haven't experienced love.

But if a person hasn't ever experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life; never understanding what joy really is. I'm grateful for it.

Painful experiences are like scars in our minds. Some have healed and been forgotten. Others are there as a reminder of what we have been through…

Illusions fall away one after another like the husks of a fruit, and that fruit is experience. It is bitter to the taste, but there is fortitude to be found in gall – forgive me my old-fashioned turns of phrase.

Life experiences shared with a friend will turn into memories to be enjoyed.

We learn from failure, not from success!

do not cry , you can focus the light spot with the eyes , the eyes of your heart . smile

You can’t translate somethingthat was never in a languagein the first place.

The sole purpose of knowledge is to create hunger for experience.

He who knows the past well can best explain the present and can tell the probable certainties and uncertainties of the future better

What is more terrifying-- the things we imagine or the things that are real?

From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent. It can only be squandered.

The lucky ones are those who take every opportunity and turn every life experience onto truth seeking adventure. They end up full filled with deeper dimensions of pleasure and spirit satisfaction.~Inspired by: Rania Rageh~

Pains are not to be relievedSorrows are not to fade awaya slight change in the visionmay bring a new experience

The Only Way You Can truly Know yourself, Is to Leave Your World And Experience Others.

Memories make you sentimental, experiences make you smart.

Ask of your eyes to seeonly to seek love.Ask of your mouth to speakonly to utter words of love.Ask of your hands to feelif only to touch the lover.

Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.

Only in sleep, where there's nothing but mind, can the mind clearly process all of the day's experiences/memories - without distraction. And, perhaps, only in sleep, where there's nothing but mind, can the mind truly understand the meaning of these memories, as well, and assimilate them with all the other memories you've accumulated over time, forming greater meanings - unintelligible in the light of day - building, perhaps, to some ultimate meaning at the culmination of life - unintelligible in the light of living.

Working a 40 hour work week is a very shallow and unfulfilling experience for many people.

Experience which destroys innocence also leads one back to it.

We are wise when we live according to what we have come to understand. Wisdom is not altogether about the amount of understanding that we possess. Wisdom is about living according to the understanding that we have already discovered. Wisdom is doing that which we understand. Wisdom comes only in doing. It is an easy thing to gain knowledge and experience, yet harder to understand and become wise.

No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot.