Quotes About Experience

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away.

It seems older people maximize their well-being more – they start to realize that life is short.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

I believe life experiences are what an actor needs to relate to the character roles they take on, and to say the least. I've had many experiences leading up to this moment. Not only have my experiences become a tremendous asset in my acting, but also they helped me discover who I am and who I want to be.

He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Love is just a word that we've chosen to use to describe something that we can't fully explain. I mean, it's like, as a culture, we've just all agreed on using the term, but I think people get so caught up in the word that they don't allow themselves the privilege to live out what it actually might be.

Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.

I just don't believe in love at first sight anymore, even though I've based my whole career on the concept. In my experience, power, money and influence always attract the opposite sex. It's something that I've always exploited – with good results.

I believe in love at first sight, and I feel sometimes you have to just be open to whatever love is and let yourself fall.

Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.

People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences, but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for it to have been one of the most valuable experiences of a lifetime.

I have loved and I have lost and I'm starting to believe; it's okay. Sometimes what we "think" is best for us, is only the beginning of what is truly "meant" for us. And if I have loved, so deeply the wrong heart; I am content in knowing the greatest love I will ever experience, hasn't even begun yet.

The only man who never make a mistake is the man who never does anything.

"The pain passes, but the beauty remains."

I learned many life lessons from watching my big sister make mistakes!

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

"In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours."

To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall.

Summertime, it was a song, it was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.

I began acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they got me and my little sister, Summer, to do it. After that I did some really weird guest spots with orangutans and stuff.

My best friend and I went to sleep-away camp every summer. We'd share stories of making out with boys, but we never did, so we made it all up. My real first kiss was at a friend's house when I was in junior high. He was such a good kisser, and we're still close friends!