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Quotes About Experience

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.
~ Joseph Campbell
When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.
~ Mariel Hemingway
Good and bad - this is the story of my life.
~ Martha Reeves
Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.
~ Peter Shaffer
I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.
~ Oscar Wilde
I believe it's true to say that everyone who has experienced LSD or another psychedelic would look on that experience, especially the first one, as a major life-changing event.
~ Ralph Metzner
Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.
~ Sara Zarr
Since life is but a continuous series of experiences, everything ultimately helps me towards my final enlightenment.
~ Sri Chinmoy
What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.
~ Thomas A. Edison
The person lives twice who lives the first life well
~ Robert Herrick
A mistake is a signal that it is time to learn something new, something you didn't know before.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow
~ Rumi
I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
~ Salman Rushdie
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man, and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.
~ Sam Ewing
It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life.
~ Sebastian Bach
My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things.
~ Sebastiao Salgado
Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)
~ Seneca the Younger
I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.
~ Sidney Poitier
My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
~ Sidney Poitier
There's more to life than books you know, but not much more.
~ Steven Morrissey
I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.
~ Steven Spielberg
What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.
~ Susan Glaspell
From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories.
~ Taisen Deshimaru