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Quotes About Experience

We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future, which we after find Bitter to taste.
~ Richard Chenevix Trench
A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
~ Elbert Hubbard
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.
~ Lindsay Fox
To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.
~ Albert Finney
Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.
~ Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.
~ Glen Cook, Shadow Games
Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.
~ Cathy Guisewite
I'm always feeling death, and that is a part of life. When you know a lot of people, you will always experience death.
~ Damon Dash
Every experience in life changes the brain's anatomy.
~ Deepak Chopra
Life aint always beautiful, but its a beautiful ride.
~ Gary Allan
I smiled, I waited, I was circumspect; O never, never, never write that I missed life or loving.
~ Hilda Doolittle
We're all human and life is complicated.
~ Mark Kozelek
The purpose of life is to know yourself, create yourself, experience yourself as Who You Really Are. There is no other reason to do anything.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
My subject is my life, and my life is my subject.
~ Otto von Bismarck
It is good to live and learn.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Optimal experience is that rare occasion when we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.
~ Minor White
I haven't known 6 days of happiness in my life.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
OH MY GOD! In Thailand, they've got the spiciest food I've ever had in my life!
~ Nick Carter
I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them.
~ Nicole Kidman
Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. Thats just the nature of the beast.
~ Nikki Grimes
There is only one group of people who do not have problems, and they are all dead. Problems are a sign of life, so the more problems you have, the more alive you are.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.
~ Polly Berrien Berends