Quotes About Experience

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what seems like a great lifestyle, and it is, but it's also grueling.

I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

I now know that experience comes to us for a purpose, and if we follow the guidance of the spirit within us, we will probably find that the purpose is a good one.

Use your internal grandmother for guidance and advice.

We play lots of roles in our lives, but I got to do that in one movie [Parental Guidance], and ride the feelings, and it was a good challenge for me.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Removing old conditionings from the mind and training the mind to be more equaimous with every experience is the first step toward enabling one to experience true happiness.

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

Happiness isn't a destination; its a journey.

Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.

unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.

The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.

Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.

And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.

I disliked the unfamiliar happiness more than the familiar sadness

The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.