Quotes About Experience

My soul experienced a peace so sweet, so deep, it would be impossible to express it.

I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.

We are all children starving to experience and know the heart of reality.

I am 73 years old. I've seen everything. I've met the kings, the queens, the presidents, I've been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace.

I believe in grace because I've seen it and peace because I've felt it and forgiveness because I've needed it.

Before the war and especially before the Boer War it was summer all the year round.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Sometimes God let us experience the storm so people who give us importance could calm us down.

Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back.

Heartbreak is life educating us.

It's fundamental that what we do only exists in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world.

I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

It was good, it was bad. But it was real, and that's all you have.

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.

Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.

There's more philosophy in jiu-jitsu mats than in any Ivy League school in America.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

Philosophy begins with the understanding that you cannot just observe or experience and then report what you see, because how you conceptualize and symbolize alters experience.

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist's most profound life experiences.

Life is a school of probability.