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Quotes About Experience

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
~ Anita Brookner
It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life experience, prejudices, worldview and thoughts.
~ Annie Proulx
I was high on life but eventually I built up a tolerance.
~ Arj Barker
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
~ Bela Lugosi
We're just inviting adventure into our life, and adventure carries a little baggage.
~ Bob Weir
If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.
~ C. S. Lewis
Life's uncertain voyage.
~ William Shakespeare
It was not an adventure; it was my life.
~ Yehuda Amichai
To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.
~ Rumer Godden
Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.
~ Russell M. Nelson
Fill your life with tiny and large adventurous moments.
~ Sark
Life is a journey, not a destination. Happiness is not "there" but here, not "tomorrow" but today.
~ Sidney Greenberg
When I was young, I wasn't a misfit or anything. I had friends in all the different social groups. But I had issues - just personal issues, insecurities and other things that had happened in my life.
~ Steve Vai
We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
My real life helped me sell a lot of records.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.
~ Tig Notaro
Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure.
~ Maya Angelou
Life isn't about the final destination or the accomplishments and accolades; it's about the journey and the opportunities for learning—and how we grow as a result.
~ Michael Eisen
Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
I had learnt to seek intensity — more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
~ Nina Berberova
...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.
~ Norman Maclean
Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.
~ Patti Smith
When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me.
~ Paul Wesley
The LSD experience usually changes forever the worldview and basic life-orientation of all who experience it
~ Ralph Metzner