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 WattsOur 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.
Alan WattsTrue forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.”
Oprah WinfreyWith every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
Oprah WinfreyExperience 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 EinsteinSometimes when learning comes before experience it doesn't make sense right away.
Richard BachEach year millions of skiers come to Colorado to experience its superb emergency medical facilities.
Dave BarryExperience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin FranklinSometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
Chuck PalahniukBeliefs 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 RooseveltEach morning when I awake I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
Salvador DaliHe 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.
BuddhaEach 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 WattsThe wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity, and the brute by instinct.
Marcus Tullius CiceroExperience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Friedrich NietzscheHappiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Denis WaitleyThe 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 EinsteinThe 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 KellerTravel in the younger sort is a part of education, in the elder a part of experience.
Francis BaconInflamed 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.
BuddhaEvery experience that is drawn through any of the senses has an effect on one's health.
Sai BabaExperience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
C. S. LewisThere 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.
ConfuciusIntelligence 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.
Sai BabaIf 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 WildeLife 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.
Henry FordI 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.
Oprah WinfreyBy 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.
ConfuciusAll 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 WildeWe 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 SantayanaThe 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.
David Herbert LawrenceOne thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell LowellMasterpieces 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 ChopraI 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 RohnThe 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 MillerThe experience of God or in any case the possibility of experiencing God is innate.
Alice WalkerYou 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 HoltzIf 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.
Alanis MorissetteLife has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
John Stuart MillOne 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.
Norman Vincent PealeThose 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 MandelaThe essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
Denis WaitleyStudies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
Francis BaconI 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.
Kobe BryantYou 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 GagaExperience 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 JeffersonWe should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
George WashingtonA high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Tennessee WilliamsOnly those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Tony RobbinsI 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 CampbellThe 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.
John Stuart MillPeople 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 CampbellNever become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
Denis WaitleyMy 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 BabaDifficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
Barbara de AngelisThe 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.
James Russell LowellWhen your heart is filled with love you will experience the Divine in the entire cosmos.
Sai BabaGod can be felt and experienced only in the deepest depths of silence.
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 CampbellSex without love is a meaningless experience but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
Woody AllenI 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.
Woody AllenThis 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 BabaIt was a combination of a high rate of speed and an inexperienced driver. It's an unbelievable tragedy.
Joseph CampbellWhen 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.
Barbara de AngelisIf you wish to succeed in life make perseverance your bosom friend experience your wise counselor caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph AddisonAll 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.
Alice WalkerA 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.
Steve JobsOld 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 BabaOriginal Experience has not been interpreted for you and so you Joseph Campbell
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph CampbellBut 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.
Stephen KingImagination 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. RowlingEvery secret of a writer's soul every experience of his life every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Virginia WoolfMy 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 ObamaIf you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend experience your wise counselor caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph AddisonI 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 JobsI don't have to have faith I have experience.
Joseph Campbell