Quotes About Experience

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.

narrative is the principal way in which our species organizes its understanding of time.

Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.

it is better to taste of frost— the exquisite frost— than of wadding and of dead grass.

I mean how can anything one has suggested in Havre or Rouen, have anything to do with anything else of moment in Paris?

let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by

Our past cannot be changed, and to be preoccupied with it is inefficient in time and effort. Likewise, by fretting over the future, we only exhaust ourselves, making us less able to effectively respond when the future is actually upon us. By worrying about a mishap that may or may not take place, we're forced to undergo the event twice—once when imagining it and once again if and when we actually experience it.

While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment.

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Looking back on his adolescence from the vantage point of his mid-eighties, George H.W. Bush candidly admitted, "I might have been obsessed with bodies – boobs they are now called. But what seventeen-year-old kid was not? Guilty am I.

As awareness unfolds, higher levels of consciousness emerge. As our consciousness rises, so does the energetic field around us. This field influences the people attracted to us, how people respond to us, what events are attracted to us, and what opportunities present themselves. People and events of similar energetic fields resonate with each other. Attraction also occurs when energies are complementary. Conscious energy creates our physical reality and our experience.

Enlightenment has nothing to do with clothing, ritual, self - hypnosis, imagination, or trans like states. Enlightenment requires understanding our true essence, understanding the true essence of God, understanding the true essence of the cosmos. Enlightenment is beyond all thought. Enlightenment can only be experienced. Enlightenment is transcendence.

Experience is the direct perception before belief, before thoughts

Explanation of experience pulls us out of experience and into thought

Life does not happen to us, life flows through us

Mistakes are not failure if we learn from them

Our problem is not with reality. But with our reaction to it. Our thoughts are energy. Energy we use to create our experience. Therefore, our problem is with our thoughts. If we change our thoughts, then we change our experience. What we think, expands, and becomes reality.

Perception determines our reality, our life experience, our sub conscious programming, our physical and mental health. Perception may control our lives, but we control perception. Perception is interpretation by the brain. It can be of the sub conscious or conscious. While conscious, we determine our perception.