Quotes on Experience

“We learn from failure, not from success!”

Bram Stoker

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

Carl Gustav Jung

“No matter how much experience you have, there’s always something new you can learn and room for improvement.”

Roy T. Bennett

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”

Meister Eckhart

“Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.”

E.A. Bucchianeri

“People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.”

Michael Bassey Johnson

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.”

Jim Morrison

“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”

Ansel Adams

“All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.”

Deng Ming-Dao

“The more fucked up you are, the more I like you. As long as you've managed to hold onto your identity through all the shit, then it won't matter how twisted you are. I will love you more for it.”

Ashly Lorenzana

“Kim olursak olalım, dünyanın hangi yerinde yaşarsak yaşayalım, ta derinlerde bir yerde hepimiz bir eksiklik duygusu taşımaktayız. Sanki temel bir şeyimizi kaybetmişiz de geri alamamaktan korkuyoruz. Neyin eksik olduğunu bilenimizde hakikaten çok az.”

Elif Şafak

“The easiest way to be reborn is to live and feel life everyday”

Munia Khan

“The hardest thing in the world is to let go of who you once thought you were and to manifest your true self, at the risk of being unloved. This is self-actualization.”

Kamand Kojouri

“Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.”

Barbara Kingsolver

“Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.”

C.S. Lewis

“One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.”

Criss Jami

“More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them”

Harold J. Smith

“You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.”

Amit Kalantri

“Perception is reality to the one in the experience.”

Danielle Bernock

“If you can feel the future, then you are about to experience it.”

Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

“İnsanoğlu nedense anlayamadığı şeylere kötülemeye meyilli.”

Elif Şafak

“We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.”

T. S. Eliot

“All knowledge hurts.”

Cassandra Clare

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

Oprah Winfrey

“Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.”

Bohdi Sanders

“Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.”

Brian Rathbone

“Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ...”

E.A. Bucchianeri

“I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time”

Laurell K. Hamilton

“Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.”

Zora Neale Hurston

“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough”

Carlos Luiz Zafon

“Experience is never at bargain price.”

Alice B. Toklas

“We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others.”

Israelmore Ayivor

“Knowledge & understanding mixed with ones convictions of 'experience' is hardly impositional. ~R. Alan Woods [2012]”

R. Alan Woods

“Never trust anyone Daniel, especially the people you admire”

Carlos Luiz Zafon

“The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Travel Moulds A Man,People Mould His Wisdom And Experiences Mould His LIFE...!”

Sujit Lalwani

“We came to earth to fulfill certain roles or characters, so that future actors and actresses can gain knowledge and insight from the experiences of those who came before them.”

Ogunlana Akinola Okikiola

“Wisdom of today is common sense of tomorrow.”

Aegelis

“Wisdom of today is the common sense of tomorrow.”

Aegelis

“Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshaped”

Alan Sheinwald

“I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.”

Patrick Rothfuss

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”

William Faulkner

“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”

Criss Jami

“Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.”

Sylvia Plath

“One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.”

Jane Hirshfield

“I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.”

H.P. Lovecraft

“The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.”

Randolph Bourne

“I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.”

H.P. Lovecraft

“The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.”

Randolph Bourne