Quotes About Experience

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

With enough emotional intensity and repetition, our nervous systems experience something as real, even if it hasn't occurred yet.

I found that life has to be edited to continue.

I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they're in another world.

Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word.

The flux of life is pouring its aesthetic aspect into your eyes, your ears - and you ignore it because you are looking for your canons of beauty in some sort of frame or glass case or tradition.

Anything that becomes an obstacle in life is only an opportunity to learn and it's the same in any profession I think.

Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

A photograph is a souvenir of life!

I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the life span and is shaped by experience.

There are no mistakes in life - only lessons. Lessons to be learnt and re-learnt until they are no longer lessons.

I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing.

Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.

The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

In life we get an opportunity to do some cool things, and some things that are fun and that we like doing.

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.