Quotes About Experience

Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.

Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it you're not even aware, only afterwards do you know you were happy.

Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment.

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

What matters most is that we learn from living.

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?

Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.

Even sickness becomes an experience that we pass through in happiness because our happiness is not dependent upon how our body feels, but how our spirit feels.

It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.

To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.

There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.

This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.

Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.

Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit.

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

So this is happiness, that journeyman.

We are born in this world to lose as well as to gain, to have happiness as well as misery. Enrich your mind by understanding this and improve, gaining stability thereby.

Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego's likes and dislikes.

Ecstasy should not be viewed as an unusual experience, but rather a natural experience - feeling all of the living matrix of existence around us.