Quotes About Experience

Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.

Life has its own flavor.

I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective.

He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.

In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?

Every life comes with a story ... and a possibility for a great adventure.

Your sexual attributes are simply chemistry and setups within your DNA. They are given by agreement as gifts for you to experience in this life.

Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be.

Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or successfully imitated. But you can dance and dream again. You must, if life is to continue.

An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.

The workshop of character is everyday life.

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

I learned to fall down early in life - I was like six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.

You can put anything into words, except your own life.

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.

The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

Dream dreams and write them aye, but live them first.

Inspiration is the gift of those who have experienced life at its most defined moments.

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.

What is life but a series of inspired follies.