Quotes About Experience

Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.

Your suffering is something you choose. Experience it fully. Without it you will not achieve personal growth and higher consciousness.

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.

Every disability is imagined. Every achievement is an experience.

The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.

Will raised both eyebrows. 'Well, you learn a new thing everyday,' he said reflectively. 'In your case, that's no exaggeration,' Halt said, completely straight-faced.

I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.

There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that's why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden.

Memories mean more to me than dresses.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

The only thing some people do is get older.

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here. But you don't lose any spiritual knowledge that you have gained in this or any other lifetime. It is inside you.

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.

The soul conceives, the mind creates, the body experiences. The circle is complete.

To be young, really young, takes a very long time.

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Change to me is like an old friend. It's not my enemy anymore. And I know it will keep coming back to visit again and again to teach me something new.

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.