Experience Quotes

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.
Sylvia Plath

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Bruce Lee

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
Jean Paul

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
Frederick Buechner

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

I'm glad to know that that can happen. That that exists. And we really still care about each other a lot, ... The Road and the Radio.
Kenny Chesney

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
John Dewey

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.
Maynard James Keenan

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
Carl Rogers

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
William Faulkner

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
Milan Kundera

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
Noam Chomsky

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.
Angelina Jolie

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
Titus

The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again.
B. F. Skinner

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
Eddie Vedder

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
George Orwell

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
George Orwell

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
Immanuel Kant

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.
Immanuel Kant

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
Jimmy Buffett

And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
Mos Def

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
R. Buckminster Fuller

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Rainer Maria Rilke

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
John Locke

I think it's the great thing about having kids. They have interests that you might not have, and it opens your horizons.
Robert Martin

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell