Quotes About Experience

There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird.

You do not fail in life, you only produce results, and you have the right to learn and grow from any results that you produce.

No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.

A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.

You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

I just simply am not a dater. I think I have been on three official dates in my life. They are like job interviews and I refuse to be romantically employed.

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.

We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.

Some people 'go' through life; and other people 'grow' through life. Which one are you?

My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.

Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.

The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.

We are not born to survive. Only to live.

Writing is making sense of life.