Quotes About Experience

All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.

Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.

Writing should be testimony to the vast flow of life through us.

I've learned so much through life. Starting off in Asia, the cultures, the people you meet, the poverty you see. It's been a great education for me, and I've loved every minute of it.

The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.

Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

There are very few times in creation in your life. One time is when you become an adult, one time is when your parents die, and the other time is when you are very old.

If you live life, then you become what are.

I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both while getting stuck in neither, then we are free.

Life is a journey I don't have a map for.

It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.

I personally feel the need to experience life and new music and ideas before I can sit down and start writing music again.

To take sides with life and experience how we can transcend ourselves is a process that has many names and faces. Religion is one of those names.

This living, this living, this living Was never a project of mine.

In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.

There's too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

As he was growing up, his family moved and lived in a number of different places in Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming. I didn't know then that moving around so much should have been a problem, so it wasn't.