Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Soren KierkegaardYou are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
Alan WattsTrue forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.”
Oprah WinfreySecurity is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen KellerExperience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar WildeTo live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.
Paulo CoelhoCharacter cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened ambition inspired and success achieved.
Helen KellerAll experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.
BuddhaExperience, travel – these are as education in themselves.
EuripidesThe only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert EinsteinEach year millions of skiers come to Colorado to experience its superb emergency medical facilities.
Dave BarrySometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
Chuck PalahniukBe brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo CoelhoBeliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them, or one that can literally save their lives.
Tony RobbinsWhat is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
William BlakeYou gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Eleanor RooseveltIt has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham LincolnEach morning when I awake I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
Salvador DaliEach year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experiences, that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.
Steve JobsHow is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain, can experience itself anything less than a god.
Alan WattsExperience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Friedrich NietzscheThe great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George SantayanaEvery experience is a lesson, every loss is a gain.
Sai BabaIt was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
Albert EinsteinUnwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
Mahatma GandhiThe marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Helen KellerIt is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning, after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John SteinbeckEvery experience that is drawn through any of the senses has an effect on one's health.
Sai BabaThere are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
ConfuciusMany people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
Helen KellerIf money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Henry FordExperience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar WildeI speak to the black experience but I am always talking about the human condition - about what we can endure, dream, fail at, and still survive.
Maya AngelouSurely all art is the result of one's having been in danger of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
Rainer Maria RilkeAll experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
Alfred Lord TennysonTrust one who has tried.
VirgilIn America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar WildeFrom their experience, or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Aldous HuxleyThis is my life. It is my one time to be me. I want to experience every good thing.
Maya AngelouWe identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
Alan WattsParents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory, children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George SantayanaOne thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell LowellA democracy is more than a form of government, it is primarily a mode of associated living of conjoint communicated experience
John DeweyMasterpieces are not single and solitary births, they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common of thinking by the body of the people so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
Virginia WoolfEnlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology, but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight, and focused attention.
Deepak ChopraKnowledge comes but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin CoolidgeI haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.
Jim CarreyA failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert HubbardLiving becomes a glorious experience only when it is sweetened by tolerance and love.
Sai BabaTake time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
Jim RohnGoing out and playing football or baseball with the boys when I was a tomboy was a great way to learn about winning and losing and most girls didn't have that experience.
Hillary ClintonThe statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
Henry A. KissingerLying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWe pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJust as the wave cannot exist for itself but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean so must I never live my life for itself but always in the experience which is going on around me.
Albert SchweitzerI'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. Buckminster FullerWe had mental lapses in the fourth quarter. It comes from us not playing together for a long time. It comes from inexperience.
Kobe BryantWar is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
Desiderius ErasmusThe word experience is like a shrapnel shell and bursts into a thousand meanings.
George SantayanaWomen are proverbially too individualistic! There is a popular belief born out of folk - experience that three women cannot live in unison!
Sai BabaSo when these people sell out even though they get fabulously rich they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.
Steve JobsMy own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.
Colin PowellAll growth is a leap in the dark a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Henry MillerReason observation and experience, the holy trinity of science.
Robert Green IngersollYou have gathered here to experience that Love.
Sai BabaGive up all bad qualities in you banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss.
Sai BabaDOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.
Bill GatesI think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
Lou HoltzLife has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
John Stuart MillThose who have faith in the Veda and its authority can personally experience this.
Sai BabaNever never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Nelson MandelaYou are the son of immortality. Understand and experience this.
Sai BabaCreativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
Steve JobsOriginal Experience has not been interpreted for you and so you Joseph Campbell
I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience it just became one.
Lady GagaI mean having the speedometer in the front windshield was something I've never experienced before and that took some getting used to. The power was there and every red light was a temptation.
Lance ArmstrongExperience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas JeffersonBut perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation the wonder of science scientific ways of thinking and the history of scientific ideas rather than laboratory experience.
Richard DawkinsA high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Tennessee WilliamsBut although all our knowledge begins with experience it does not follow that it arises from experience.
Immanuel KantExperience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous HuxleyI must take issue with the term 'a mere child ' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
Fran LebowitzThe words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
Saint AugustineJust as Western physicists announced the existence of gravitation after their experiments the ancients of this land demonstrated the innate authenticity of the Vedas through their own experience.
Sai BabaExperience has shown and a true philosophy will always show that a vast perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Edgar Allan PoeOnly those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Tony RobbinsEmbodiments of Love! There is Love in everyone of you. Develop that Love. Share it with the people. You also experience with your fellow people. This love - this love is not one-way traffic. It is just two-way GIVE and TAKE. We don't need to go anywhere if you have Love.
Sai BabaI have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and before the first note is struck realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.
Henry RollinsEvery creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Isaac Bashevis SingerIt is only when you have both divine grace and human endeavor that you can experience bliss just as you can enjoy the breeze of a fan only when you have both a fan and the electrical energy to operate it.
Sai BabaIn the revolt against idealism the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
Bertrand RussellI think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
Joseph CampbellWhatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
Brian TracyHigh school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
Doug CouplandLike success failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude failure is a learning experience a rung on the ladder a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
W. Clement StonePeople say that what their seeking is a meaning for life.... I think that what we are seeking is an experience of being alive so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
Joseph CampbellMen and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
Andre MauroisMy experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
Thomas HuxleyMy experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Eleanor RooseveltNo matter where you go always do your duty as you see it and know that I will be there inside you guiding you every step of the way...There is no need to worry about anything. Whatever is experienced whatever happens know that this Avatar willed it so. There is no force on earth which can delay for an instant the mission for which this Avatar has come. You are all sacred souls and you will have your parts to play in the unfolding drama of the new Golden Age which is coming.
Sai BabaTHOSE who deny God the Supreme Will or the First Cause can give no real satisfactory justification for their stand, nor can those who assert that there is God. Both have to rely on their own experience. After all how can sweetness be denied by one who refuses to taste sugar? How can one be convinced that sugar is sweet until one tastes it? We have to feel the great marvel of energy manipulating both the minutest atom and cell and the vastest most distant star. How else can we understand the Omnipresence and Omnipotence except by accepting God as the Architect of the Cosmos?
Sai BabaThe courage to face the trials and to bring... possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience that is the hero's deed. We have only to follow the heros path and where we had thought to find abomination we shall find a God. And where we had thought to slay another we shall slay ourselves... Where we had thought to travel outward we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone we will be with all the world.
Joseph CampbellPeople grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor RooseveltThis body is the residence of God. The food you take is the offering you make to him. Your act of bathing is the ceremonial bathing of Him who is in You. The ground you walk on is His domain. The joy you gain is His gift. The grief you experience is His lesson. Remember Him ever in sun and rain day and night asleep and awake.
Sai BabaYou cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert CamusI have always laid it down as a maxim /and found it justified by experience /that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex /but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
Lord ByronWhen you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
Albert CamusOld age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey he must have discovered that the joys available in this world are trivial and fleeting. He must be equipped with the higher knowledge of spiritual joy available through delving into the inner spring of Bliss. Through his experiences his heart must have softened and be filled with compassion. He has to be engrossed in promoting the progress of all beings without distinction. And he must be eager to share with others the knowledge he has accumulated and the benefit of his experiences.
Sai BabaImagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
J. K. RowlingMy experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus, as if I really don't belong.
Michelle ObamaThe trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe with a conviction based on experience that you can fool all of the people all of the time
Franklin Pierce AdamsI don't think I've ever worked so hard on something but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands it wouldn't be ours anymore.
Steve Jobs