Quotes About Experience

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Yo no vivía, y ahora vivo; pero ahora que vivo es cuando siento lo que es morir

Hay que vivir! Y él me enseñó a vivir, él nos enseñó a vivir, a sentir la vida, a sentir el sentido de la vida, a sumergirnos en el alma de la montaña, en el alma del lago, en el alma del pueblo de la aldea, a perdernos en ellas para quedar en ellas.

Because Augustus was not a hiker, but a walker of life

I cannot imagine how anyone can go through life without carrying the memories of his childhood on the surface of his soul.

De la cuna nos viene la tristeza y también de la cuna la alegría...

El alma es un manantial que sólo se revela en lágrimas. Hasta que se llora de veras no se sabe si se tiene o no alma.

Los hombres no sucumbimos a las grandes penas ni a las grandes alegrías, y es porque esas penas y esas alegrías vienen embozadas en una

Porque la calle forma un tejido en que se entrecruzan miradas de deseo, de envidia, de desdén, de compasión, de amor, de odio, viejas palabras cuyo espíritu quedó cristalizado, pensamientos, anhelos, toda una tela misteriosa que envuelve las almas de los que pasan.

Los hombres no sucumbimos a las grandes penas ni a las grandes alegrías, y es porque esas penas y esas alegrías vienen embozadas en una inmensa niebla de pequeños incidentes. Y la vida es esto, la niebla. La vida es una nebulosa.

Es o no es un juego la vida? ¿Y por qué no ha de servir volver atrás las jugadas?

Ler, ler, ler, viver a vida que outros sonharam...

Não posso negar o que vi, o que cheirei, o que senti, o que amei.

Não há regresso. Há viagens sem regresso nem repetição.

Mas juro-te [burocrata do sector de viagens da RTP] que hás-de morrer sem conhecer o prazer de estar deitado de costas na areia, coberto de pó e de sujidade, a arrotar atum por todos os lados, com os músculos a doerem, e a olhar para um céu pejado de estrelas e pensar que é fantástico estar vivo.

The second reason creativity is so fascinating is that when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

The ultimate test for the ability to control the quality of experience is what a person does in solitude, with no external demands to give structure to attention.

It might be true that it is "quality time" that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality.

The flow experience, like everything else, is not "good" in an absolute sense. It is good only in that it has the potential to make life more rich, intense, and meaningful; it is good because it increases the strength and complexity of the self.

The good things in life do not come only through the senses. Some of the most exhilarating experiences we undergo are generated inside the mind, triggered by information that challenges our ability to think, rather than from the use of sensory skills.

There was a time when it was admirable to be an amateur poet or a dilettante scientist, because it meant that the quality of life could be improved by engaging in such activities. But increasingly the emphasis has been to value behavior over subjective states; what is admired is success, achievement, the quality of performance rather than the quality of experience.

Creating meaning involves bringing order to the contents of the mind by integrating one's actions into a unified flow experience.