Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience.

True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.”

Security 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.

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened ambition inspired and success achieved.

All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.

Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Sometimes when learning comes before experience it doesn't make sense right away.

Each year millions of skiers come to Colorado to experience its superb emergency medical facilities.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Beliefs 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.

What 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.

You 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.'

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Each morning when I awake I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

He who experiences the unity of life, sees his own Self in all beings and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

Each 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.

How 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.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity, and the brute by instinct.

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Every experience is a lesson, every loss is a gain.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

The 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.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning, after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

Travel in the younger sort is a part of education, in the elder a part of experience.

Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction for others' affliction for the affliction of both, and experiences pain and grief.

Experience praises the most happy, the one who made the most people happy.

Every experience that is drawn through any of the senses has an effect on one's health.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

There 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.

Intelligence is restricted. It can deal only with facts discoverable by the senses and experiences related to these. It can act only in the area of the visible the viable.

Many 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.

If 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.

Good judgment comes from experience and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

I 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.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First by reflection which is noblest, Second by imitation which is easiest, and third by experience which is the bitterest.

Surely 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.

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

Trust one who has tried.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

From their experience, or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

For having lived long I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions, even on important subjects which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

This is my life. It is my one time to be me. I want to experience every good thing.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory, children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

A democracy is more than a form of government, it is primarily a mode of associated living of conjoint communicated experience

Masterpieces 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.

Enlightened 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.

Knowledge 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.

I 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.

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.

Living becomes a glorious experience only when it is sweetened by tolerance and love.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Going 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.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

Just 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.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

We had mental lapses in the fourth quarter. It comes from us not playing together for a long time. It comes from inexperience.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Women are proverbially too individualistic! There is a popular belief born out of folk - experience that three women cannot live in unison!

So 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.

My 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.

All growth is a leap in the dark a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

The experience of God or in any case the possibility of experiencing God is innate.

Reason observation and experience, the holy trinity of science.

You have gathered here to experience that Love.

Give up all bad qualities in you banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

If I could sell 500 million records every time it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager in a very kind of model version of it.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Those who have faith in the Veda and its authority can personally experience this.

Never never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

I think their experience kicked in and overwhelmed us a bit tonight ... We kept fighting back and did some great things with our execution. Our inexperience on defense hurt us as they were spreading the floor extremely well and getting good looks at the basket.

You are the son of immortality. Understand and experience this.

Creativity 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.

Original 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.

I 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.

Experience 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.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

But 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.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

I 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.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Just 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.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Experience has shown and a true philosophy will always show that a vast perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

Embodiments 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.

I 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.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

It 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.

Human values are born with man. They are not got from outside. Man in his ignorance is not aware of these values. when man sheds his ignorance he will experience his divine nature.

In 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.

I 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.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces but which all experience refutes.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

Like 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.

People 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.

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

A man is born alone and dies alone, and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone, and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

No 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.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding, one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience, ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

The soul should always stand ajar ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Is it not rather what we expect in men that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life and often find ourselves without experience despite our years.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs fables folk sayings and quotations.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

When your heart is filled with love you will experience the Divine in the entire cosmos.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

Purchased experiences don't count.

God can be felt and experienced only in the deepest depths of silence.

THOSE 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?

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

The 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.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Throughout my whole life as a performer I've never played with a band. I've always played alone so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.

No other weapon has the power of forbearance. It should not be used only as an individual instrument. It has to be experienced collectively also. That is the reason why the scripture has commended collective forbearance at the very outset of the spiritual quest. What is its inner meaning?

In spite of his practical ability some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself and the paintings appear as in a dream.

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

I didn't fully realize it at the time but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce in the next generation more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption, it is not a symbol but a fraud.

Mistakes are painful when they happen but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par it's our fault plain and simply.

Experience is the child of thought and thought is the child of action.

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world and ignorance of mankind.

All theory is against freedom of the will, all experience for it.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge experience and ability.

The questions which one asks oneself begin at least to illuminate the world and become one's key to the experience of others.

I like the film and that's rare for me to say because I make films and I am almost invariably disappointed. When I saw ('Match Point') I said 'My God it came out.' It surprised me. . . . So I am enjoying the experience because it happens so rarely for me.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

When people speak to you about a preventive war you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience I have come to hate war.

This 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.

Experience hath shewn that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have in time and by slow operations perverted it into tyranny.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money and I certainly had that experience.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

You cannot in human experience rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who by all laws of logic should never have made it. At each stage of my career I lacked the experience.

It was a combination of a high rate of speed and an inexperienced driver. It's an unbelievable tragedy.

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time it's pretty nutty.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

If history repeats itself and the unexpected always happens how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

When you make a commitment to a relationship you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants.

It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

But human experience is usually paradoxical that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

If you wish to succeed in life make perseverance your bosom friend experience your wise counselor caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

The experience of this one life must be enough to show you that there is no joy unmixed with grief that both grief and joy are short-lived and they both depend on the mind and its control. You do not require the experience of a series of lives to grasp this patent fact.

I 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.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus with the flash of one hurried glance it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract, or in any case one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

It is when you experience another Sai Baba

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience the better design we will have.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves, than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience of which the purpose is too deep going too deep in the blood and soul for mental explanation or description.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life as not to receive new information from age and experience.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry, than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

Human life is beset with ups and downs joys and sorrows. These experiences are intended to serve as guideposts for man.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation, a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Old 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.

Two things control men's nature instinct and experience.

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Adversity is the first path to truth, He who hath proved war storm or woman's rage Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty Has won the experience which is deemed so weighty

Experience without theory is blind but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Original Experience has not been interpreted for you and so you Joseph Campbell

Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study, and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large except they be bounded in by experience.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Human beings who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

Words are always qualifications and limitations. That's why it is a peak experience to break past all that every now and then and to realize "Oh...... ah.....

In order to experience everyday spirituality we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

That is experience and age. They are veterans and knowing what they need to do within their system to maximize the whole. They have guys who are extremely talented.

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

The more connections you and your lover make not just between your bodies but between your minds your hearts and your souls the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship and the more real moments you will experience together.

Art is not a handicraft it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences to write about them to get them out of my system to not get sick and then to share them publicly.

My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

My friends whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals a man fears everything, but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them, for those experiences have left an indelible impression and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

Of two pleasures if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it that is the more desirable pleasure.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided and that is the lamp of experience.

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour. ot their name. William James's mysticism chapter from 'Varieties of Relligious Experience' may help here.

Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common community and communication. Try the experiment of communicating with fullness and accuracy some experience to another especially if it be somewhat complicated and you will find your own

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead, a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute and yet is relative, in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter in mind and as mind in emotion as emotion etc.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Imagination 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.

I love that my friends are sometimes even 20, 30 years older than me - that I can just sit and enjoy their company and their experiences.

I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud or perhaps even think.

Every secret of a writer's soul every experience of his life every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

My 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.

No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression without being scarred by it. No amount of experience since the depression can convince someone who has lived through it that the world is safe economically.

If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend experience your wise counselor caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

The 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

At the end of the day when it comes time to make that decision as president all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

The head learns new things but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

I 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.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

One of the great cosmic laws I think is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience.

I don't have to have faith I have experience.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

After mastering the texts and gaining experience in putting the lessons into actual practice one can share the light and the joy with others.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

The physical world including our bodies is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

I'd like to share my experiences and the lessons I've learned and hopefully create some amazing fun courses.

The value of righteousness is expressed through the body. This is related to the physical sheath. Peace can be experienced only in the mental plane.

We gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Experience is not what happens to you, it's what you do with what happens to you.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

An actor must interpret life and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.