Experience Quotes

You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which seems to be seen best for the first time: a curtain parts and what had not yet ever been seen is devoured by the eyes: the scene consecrates the object I am going to love. The context is the constellation of elements, harmoniously arranged that encompass the experience of the amorous subject...Love at first sight is always spoken in the past tense. The scene is perfectly adapted to this temporal phenomenon: distinct, abrupt, framed, it is already a memory (the nature of a photograph is not to represent but to memorialize)... this scene has all the magnificence of an accident: I cannot get over having had this good fortune: to meet what matches my desire. interval, something has been successful: I have been fulfilled (all my desires abolished by the plenitude of their satisfaction).

~ Roland Barthes

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

~ Dr. Seuss

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces.

~ C. Joybell C.

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

~ Veronica Roth

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

~ Paulo Coelho

Be thankful for everything that happens in your life, it’s all an experience.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Don't JustDon't just learn, experience.Don't just read, absorb.Don't just change, transform.Don't just relate, advocate.Don't just promise, prove.Don't just criticize, encourage.Don't just think, ponder.Don't just take, give.Don't just see, feel.Don’t just dream, do. Don't just hear, listen.Don't just talk, act.Don't just tell, show.Don't just exist, live.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Who are you?Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?I have. I am fucking crazy.But I am free.

~ Lana Del Rey

Some things cannot be taught, they must be experienced. You never learn the most valuable lessons in life until you go through your own journey.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

~ Criss Jami

Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps

~ Paula Hawkins

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,To gain all while you give,To roam the roads of lands remote,To travel is to live.

~ Hans Christian Andersen

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

~ Mary Tyler Moore

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

~ Jim Morrison

I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits

~ Anaïs Nin

No matter how much experience you have, there’s always something new you can learn and room for improvement.

~ Roy T. Bennett

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

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

~ Ansel Adams

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.

~ Ming-Dao Deng

The past is a place of learning, not a place of living.

~ Roy T. Bennett

People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Тя усети изведнъж, че все пак нещо й липсваше през този дъждовен пролетен ден, нещо, от което бе имала нужда винаги, но което прогниваше съзнателно, за да не я върне към миналото й. Тя го усети внезапно и бурно. Това вече не беше той, а само вълнението, което изпитваше към него, само сълзите и радостта, с които някога я изпълваше той.

~ Димитър Димов

All these bad experiences that we go through, they don't just disappear. We carry them our whole life trying to forget, escaping in habits, addictions, hate, toxic relationships. But what we don't know is that by doing so we let them stay alive. We water them like withered flowers and we hang onto them to justify our mistakes and failures.

~ Asper Blurry

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

~ Oprah Winfrey

And if my heart be scarred and burned,The safer, I, for all I learned.

~ Dorothy Parker

Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office.

~ Simone Elkeles

The moral of the story is even though that seemed like the end of the world back then, right now I can look back on it and laugh. And if anyone is going through something similar right now just know it will get better.

~ Phil Lester

If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.

~ Junot Díaz

Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.

~ Criss Jami

Whatever I learned,Whatever I knew,Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew,Away in some dilemma,Always in some confusion,The purpose of this life,Seems like an illusion!

~ Mehek Bassi

İnsanoğlu nedense anlayamadığı şeylere kötülemeye meyilli.

~ Elif Shafak

Her maktul katilinde yaşamaya devam eder.

~ Elif Shafak

Great losses are great lessons.

~ Amit Kalantri

Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems.

~ Amit Kalantri

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing narrow about the conservative philosophy. It's a liberating philosophy. It is a magnificent philosophy. It is a philosophy for the ages, for all times.

~ Mark R. Levin

Each day brings with it a whole new world because each day is different from the previous day or the one it precedes.No two days will ever be the same and that is the beauty of the world and of God, because he wants us to see and experience new things each and every day.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

~ Alan Keightley