Quotes About Experience

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

A person can't know what happiness is without experiencing sadness. And I think that's healthy.

Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.

One of Buddhism's main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

I like to move towards a place where my greatest experience is promoting happiness for others. I know that that creates a cycle of the same great experience.

He who lives happiest has forgotten most

Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

What happiness is there in just the memory of happiness?

And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.

happiness, unlike grief, does not clamor for a chronicler.

Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.

What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.

Happiness, at my age, is breathing

It isn't happiness I am concerned with but experience.

The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it.

When sadness comes, accept it. Listen to its song. It has something to give to you. It has a gift which no happiness can give to you, only sadness can give it.

Happiness is the best adventure on earth.

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy, pain, loss, guilt and remorse.