Experience Quotes

Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.

Fashion cannot make you sexy. Experience makes you sexy. Imagination makes people sexy. You have to train yourself, you have to study, and you have to live your life.

Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.

Every experience has its element of magic.

In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.

We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences...our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.

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

Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of the musical notes that holds all life together.

There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.

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.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.

Each man believes only his experience.

The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.

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

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

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.

Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered. Dr. Joseph Murphy

The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell

Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

Life to me is an adventure and you've got to experience everything.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

You know, old folks can have dreams, too, as well as young folks, and then work toward them. And to have a dream like this come true for me is just a terrific experience.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience is what you get from not reading it.

Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere.

We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.

The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

When there is a fight between your heart and your head, experience has taught me that the best thing you can do is pick up your Bible and remind yourself of what God says.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us.

You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.

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

The experience of life in a finite, limited body is specifically for the purpose of discovering and manifesting supernatural existence.

Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.

The prime rule of reality is that we must become in our lives what we choose to experience in the world.