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 KellerWith 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 BachExperience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin FranklinBe brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo CoelhoYou 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 JobsExperience, 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 EinsteinIt 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 SteinbeckTravel 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 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.
ConfuciusIf 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 FordLife 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 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 AngelouBy 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.
VirgilThe 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 LawrenceMasterpieces 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 ChopraLiving becomes a glorious experience only when it is sweetened by tolerance and love.
Sai BabaExperience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Ambrose BierceWomen 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 PowellLife has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
John Stuart MillI 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 BryantCreativity 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 JobsHe 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.
ChanakyaExperience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous HuxleyIt is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
Woody AllenExperience 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 PoeHuman 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.
Sai BabaThe 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 MillLike 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 MauroisA 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.
ChanakyaMy 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 BabaThe wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs fables folk sayings and quotations.
William FeatherTHOSE 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 RooseveltSex without love is a meaningless experience but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
Woody AllenThe wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin DisraeliExperience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Leonardo da VinciWhen 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.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThis 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 lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money and I certainly had that experience.
J. K. RowlingIt was a combination of a high rate of speed and an inexperienced driver. It's an unbelievable tragedy.
Joseph CampbellIt'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.
Johnny DeppWhen 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 AngelisI 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 ByronA 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 JobsNo man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Jonathan SwiftAlthough 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.
Leonardo da VinciOld 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 BabaTwo things control men's nature instinct and experience.
Blaise PascalAdversity 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
Lord ByronOriginal Experience has not been interpreted for you and so you Joseph Campbell
In order to experience everyday spirituality we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
Barbara de AngelisThat 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.
Kobe BryantFreedom. 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.
Mitt RomneyBut 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.
Alanis MorissetteMy 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.
Drew BarrymoreOur 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.
Henry David ThoreauProverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Aldous HuxleyExperience 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.
Donald TrumpWith 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.
Alanis MorissetteBut 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 ObamaThe head learns new things but the heart forever practices old experiences.
Henry Ward BeecherI 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 JobsThe heart is forever inexperienced.
Henry David ThoreauI 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.
Richard M. Nixon