Quotes About Experience

I've had a wonderful evening - but this wasn't it.

My experience is that people are most likely to listen to reason when in bed.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

A man is only as old as the woman he feels.

I have had a wonderful time but this wasn't it.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

We left New York drunk and early on the morning of February second. After fifteen days on the water and six on the boat we finally arrived on the shores of Africa.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

I wish I'd been a Hell-raiser when I was 30 years old. I tried when I was 50 but I always got sleepy.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.

Everyone is the age of their heart.

The real difference between yoga and religion is this: Religion says believe, do not doubt, often citing the word of God and promises of an eternal afterlife, reciting dogma (unsubstantiated pre-modern myths), while yoga only points the way and urges its students to practice and experience for themselves. In this way yoga is very scientific in its approach to self-knowledge, transcendence and enlightenment. Its message is: Try the practice for yourself and only then can you truly believe.

You may have known for many, many years that smoking isn't good for you, but you're still smoking. You have become a master of deluding yourself. Direct experience is the only thing that can crush your delusion. If you really want to quit and be free, this is the most important step you can take in that direction.

Here is my theory: If smoking is really good, you should be able to smoke and do nothing else at the same time, really focusing all your attention on smoking and how it makes you feel.

Many people say that time heals all wounds, but that simply is not true. People can become more bitter, arrogant and spiteful with age.

Imagine a time before you had ever had chocolate. Going to lectures about chocolate would have been interesting. Reading about chocolate might have increased your appetite. But only tasting chocolate would have really made you understand how good chocolate can be. Only tasting— only experience.

Life is not only measured by what happens to us. It is measured by the way in which we interpret what happens to us.

Some events in life are so overwhelming that people will experience stress no matter how good they are at controlling their minds in normal circumstances.

Only direct experience of the peaceful internal state will remove doubt and provide enlightenment—not in a spooky, out-of-this-world kind of way, but in a rational, let's-turn-on-the-lights sort of way.

If you want to increase your self-confidence as a yoga teacher very fast – go out there, face your fears, and teach as much as you possibly can!

It's a really simple formula: Your experience + Yoga = New Students.

Por entonces era todavía joven; conocía poco los hombres y la historia: me había tomado en serio lo que me enseñaban en la Universidad.