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Quotes About Experience

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
~ William Osler
Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.
~ Ashly Lorenzana
Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.
~ Rose Macaulay
Your life can become the background for the art you create.
~ Alicia Keys
Life consists only of moments, nothing more than that. So if you make the moment matter, it all matters
~ Ellen Langer
I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
~ Gloria Naylor
You meet all kinds of people that help put life in perspective and turn the horror into some kind of lesson or avenue of awakening that lives with you all your days.
~ Ruby Dee
The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.
~ Allan Kaprow
Enjoy the journey, because the destination is a mirage.
~ Steven Furtick
Life's up and down from the time you get here to the time you leave.
~ Luke Bryan
One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one
~ Clifford Geertz
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
~ Wallis Duchess of Windsor
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
~ Eudora Welty
What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.
~ Questlove
Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.
~ Tim Meadows
Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.
~ Lee Iacocca
Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
~ Ray Bradbury
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
~ Tom Stoppard
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.
~ Bruce Springsteen
When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.
~ Khushwant Singh
Life is supposed to be fun. It's not a job or occupation. We're here only once and we should have a bit of a laugh.
~ Billy Connolly
Life at best is bittersweet.
~ Jack Kirby