Quotes About Experience

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced; even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Life is filled with so many exciting twists and turns. Hop off the straight and narrow whenever you can and take the winding paths. Experience the exhilaration of the view from the edge. Because the moments spent there, that take your breath away, are what make you feel truly alive. --- Copyright © 2000 Stacey Charter

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

We have been given a gift that is really, really precious. Its simple. It isnt going to get us anything. It isnt there to augment anything. Its there for us to be able to experience something that is within ourselves. It is not there to change our religions, our practices, our daily lives. But it is only there for one reason, for one reason alone. Simple happiness. Simple joy.

Learn how to live, and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll learn how to live.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

This is the strangest life I've ever known.