Top 100 Quotes About Experience Of Life
#1. Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about Life will be your experience of Life.
Neale Donald Walsch
#3. No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life along a channel of communication closed to painter, mathematician, musician, film-maker.
Storm Jameson
#4. Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers.
Frederick Lenz
#5. Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.
Antonin Artaud
#6. Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Tony Robbins
#7. You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of the small experience that we do have.
John Banville
#8. Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.
Tony Robbins
#9. The fact is, I can have any experience of life I want. I don't have to choose any one thing or act in any one way to define myself as a woman now. I am one.
Ally Sheedy
#10. Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
Laura Schlessinger
#11. Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
Bill Crawford
#12. Experiencing life makes you a better writer, and writing enhances your experience of life.
K. M. Bozarth
#13. Hard experience of life has shown us that, generally speaking, it is inadvisable to trust too much in human nature.
Jose Saramago
#14. The universe is wired to give us what we need, yet we have to show up for the experience of life with a positive attitude in order to experience its gifts.
Marianne Williamson
#15. If there's - one person on the face of this earth who makes me sick it's the ninny who calls a thing 'improbable' because it happens to be outside his own special, puny experience of life.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
#16. Though I can't help feeling a sudden death cheats you of something. Death is an experience of life. You only get one death. I would like to be aware it was happening, even if that did mean enduring pain and fear.
Trudi Canavan
#17. I have not written my memoirs for those young people who can only save themselves from falling by spending their youth in ignorance, but for those whom experience of life has rendered proof against being seduced, whom living in the fire has transformed into salamanders.
Giacomo Casanova
#18. Make the decision to love this day, this place, this moment, this special experience of life with the people around you. And there will be so very much to love.
Ralph Marston
#19. The experience of death must ultimately be the experience of life, or else it is only a wraith.
Thomas Mann
#20. The most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#21. I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.
Michael Frayn
#22. My experience of life is that it's very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in another place, a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences.
Jasper Johns
#23. My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
Hans Hofmann
#24. The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
Jimmy Carter
#25. I Used to think that I knew everything, I was alone. My heart was empty, a single soul experience of life. When I discovered in a pair of eyes, a light reflection of mine, I found my mate, my match, my soul.
Katia M. S.
Katia M. S.
#26. Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing.
Richard Rohr
#27. As with ... even the written word, the remote overview is one more wrenched perspective that developing civilization has glued, collagelike, to the once unified experience of life.
Bruce Berger
#28. It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
Eknath Easwaran
#29. Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
Greg Anderson
#30. The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience of life has given him a subject, he is spared the youthful writer's self-torment and soul-searching.
Wright Morris
#31. A warrior knows that his days are few which leads him to an intense experience of life that is unknown to others.
Milton Katselas
#32. I do think you should be more careful how you choose your friends. You are so credulous, dear, so easily gulled. I suppose it is being a writer and having so much imagination. If you were older and had more experience of life you would have been on guard at once.
Agatha Christie
#33. My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.
Jane Pauley
#34. Everything happens at the open window, the portal into another world. Our experience of life depends upon whether we stay the safe side of the window or have the courage to go through." The Beautiful Dance of Life.
Princess Mazzaloulou
#35. Holding on to beliefs limits our experience of life. That doesn't mean that beliefs or ideas or thinking is a problem; the stubborn attitude of having to have things be a particular way, grasping on to our beliefs and thoughts, all these cause the problems.
Pema Chodron
#36. His experience of life in an office had made him determine never to have anything more to do with one ...
W. Somerset Maugham
#37. Yoga, in all its forms, provides a means for the practitioner to master the body and the mind so that the soul (or true self) can emerge to share in the experience of life.
Lei Camille
#38. In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life.
Mark Nepo
#39. Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.
Simon Mainwaring
#40. It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.
Frank Duff
#41. All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#42. I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.
Doris Lessing
#43. A close, daily intimacy between two people has to be paid for: it requires a great deal of experience of life, logic, and warmth of heart on both sides to enjoy each other's good qualities without being irritated by each other's shortcomings and blaming each other for them.
Ivan Goncharov
#44. The experience of life in a finite, limited body is specifically for the purpose of discovering and manifesting supernatural existence.
Pythagoras
#45. I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.
Nuala O'Faolain
#46. If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.
Nick Nolte
#47. Looking at everything through your phone is only numbing your perception - it does not really enhance your experience of life in any way.
Jaggi Vasudev
#48. I think to be a good actor you need either a good experience of life or education, or both.
Honeysuckle Weeks
#49. Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
Ben Affleck
#50. One of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made. The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by come chance manage to evade the result of their folly.
W. Somerset Maugham
#51. I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus on youth, on celebrity, our denial of death makes it harder for people who are grieving to find a place for that grief.
Edward Hirsch
#52. At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
Ellen Key
#53. Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.
William Graham Sumner
#54. Generally, the longer it takes for us to make a decision, the greater the disconnect between our current experience of life and our true selves.
Elaina Marie
#55. That's what a powerful story does. It creates a more intense experience of life for you to watch. That's what a good film does for me, anyway. That process, I enjoy. It just makes for entertaining characters and entertaining films.
Sharlto Copley
#56. My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.
Alan Moore
#57. He who has little communication with people is seldom a misanthrope. True misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world. This is because it is practical experience of life, and certainly not philosophy, that makes people hate their fellows.
Giacomo Leopardi
#58. Ultimately, it's possible that social media platforms will be designed as templates that the users themselves customize in terms of the best way to express their community and experience of life, and brands will have to simply follow suit.
Simon Mainwaring
#59. The point is that if we accept nature as God's creation, then it's ridiculous to think that God could be a male without a female. Asexual, yes. But not a male. It goes against our entire experience of life on Planet Earth. That is, if you think that God would've created nature in Her own image.
Erin O'Riordan
#60. Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
Giacomo Leopardi
#62. What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
Joseph Campbell
#63. If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the scholar or philosopher, not the master, saint, or teacher, but life itself - direct experience of life. The same is true for art. Here, too, we an dispense with the masters.
Henry Miller
#64. To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the 'sponsoring thought' that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.
Bill Crawford
#65. 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.
Franz Kafka
#66. It's two things: it's totally impersonal and it's totally personal, simultaneously. That's the nature of the mystical experience of life. Everything about life is impersonal, but you have a personal experience. And the bridge between the personal and the impersonal is called prayer.
Caroline Myss
#67. Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
Jack Kornfield
#68. The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.
Abbas Kiarostami
#69. Allow yourself to have a completely undefended experience of life, and allow the light of God to flow through your life freely, openly, and with renewed purpose. This is the essence of unconditional love.
Catherine Carrigan
#70. If you can choose a better thought, you can choose a better experience of life.
Francine Huss
#71. Japonisme was a vertical phenomenon running through a number of successive styles; Art Nouveau was a horizontal, chronologically limited phenomenon that embodied the aim of giving expression to a new experience of life.
Klaus Berger
#72. If experience is the best teacher, there's nothing that comes close to the experience of life.
Michael A. Singer
#73. From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.
Muriel Spark
#74. Religion is not an experiment, it is an experience of life through which one is part of the cosmic adventure.
Raimon Panikkar
#75. We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Carl Jung
#76. Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.
Walter Kaufmann
#77. Many people say that recovery from an aneurysm is like having a layer of skin ripped off - your experience of life is more intense.
Maryam D'Abo
#79. Life happens from within. How aware you are of it, decides the quality of your body, your mind, and your experience of life.
Jaggi Vasudev
#80. If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of life that you have to tell someone about it, and in a way that reorders the experience to make it manageable.
Graham Joyce
#81. There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
Charles Ives
#82. The wave is the signature of every experience of life. By understanding the nature of waves and their characteristics, and applying that understanding to our lives, we can navigate life with a little more grace.
Jeffrey R. Anderson
#83. Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.
Elizabeth Prentiss
#84. Therefore, if you want to be in harmony with your love or with your fight, learn to react rapidly. Do not allow your supposed experience of life to transform you into a machine.
Paulo Coelho
#85. My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two.
John Ortberg
#86. The experience of life should mature you. It is your choice to transform a memory into a wound or wisdom.
Sadghuru
#87. What the artist should be asking is, Am I being honest? Am I being myself? Am I searching for the truth? Am I reporting my experience of life and the world as I see and experience it?
Scott Kahn
#88. You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.
Joy Page
#89. We meet different kinds of people in life, Good people gives us happiness whereas worse gives us lesson.So never regret on meeting someone.As it's an experience of life. Taste every flavor of life.
Debolina
#90. Homo homini lupus [man is wolf to man]. Who in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion?
Sigmund Freud
#91. There are two ways to respond to the trials and tribulations of our present and past ... 'Ain't it awful?' ... or ... 'Good information!' Our choice of responses will determine our experience of life.
Bill Crawford
#92. The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
Vernon Howard
#93. Energy follows thought; we move toward, but not beyond, what we can imagine. What we assume, expect, or believe creates and colors our experience. By expanding our deepest beliefs about what is possible, we change our experience of life.
Dan Millman
#94. The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped from the palace and the women and the riches and the luxury and everything.
Rajneesh
#95. Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to what I knew. The one difference is that at seventeen I had no 'realism'.
Yukio Mishima
#96. One of the greatest product of a meaningful education is the intellectual curiosity that leads men and women to continued learning and makes them eager to learn as the experience of life reveals areas of ignorance.
M.A. Khan
#97. They were living in some kind of movie projected by this intellectual, electromechanical machine that had been created for their happiness, saying: PARADISE PARADISE PARADISE but which had inadvertently shut them out from direct experience of life itself - and from each other.
Robert M. Pirsig
#98. If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be a very different place.
Jaggi Vasudev
#99. You can always create your own experience of life in a beautiful and enjoyable way if you keep your love turned on within you- regardless of what other people say or do.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#100. Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.
Mark Twain
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