Top 100 Quotes About Experiences: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Experiences

#1. We have to build things that we want to see accomplished, in life and in our country, based on our own personal experiences ... to make sure that others ... do not have to suffer the same discrimination.

Patsy Mink

#2. Thoughts repeat themselves. Experiences do not.

David Cain

#3. I believe the most useful knowledge about human behavior is based on people's lived experiences.

Brene Brown

#4. I don't do anecdotes. I accumulate experiences.

James Rosenquist

#5. Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to physicists.

David Finkelstein

#6. To further promote anti-corruption efforts, we need to insist on the successful experiences gained through the Party's long-term anti-corruption practice. We need to actively draw on effective practices conducted by foreign countries around the world, and our own valuable heritage.

Xi Jinping

#7. My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences ... everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving - she's better than me.

Angelina Jolie

#8. The more adept we become at feeling love and gratitude for all life's earthly learning experiences, the more quickly we are reminded that, whatever hardship may be placed before us, it is our choice always to return to a place of love and gratitude and to give thanks for all that still remains.

Molly Friedenfeld

#9. A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration.

Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre

#10. Art invites us to become explorers and excavators of our vast internal landscapes, discovering new terrain and digging deep into the past to unearth forgotten experiences and emotion.

Jaeda DeWalt

#11. The two best experiences are the heady days when the boat is bought - and the day it's sold. Everything between is expenditure.

Jack Owen

#12. Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs

Robert A. Heinlein

#13. Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness.

Arthur Koestler

#14. I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

Victoria Justice

#15. People in the CIA, they marry each other. They're like actors! We have to travel without much warning to far-flung places, and it's very hard to communicate what our experiences are like to those in the outside world.

Claire Danes

#16. Your karma is the sum total of your awareness field. Your awareness field is comprised of all the experiences that you've had in this life and all other lives.

Frederick Lenz

#17. Life is about the people we meet, and the experiences we have along the way.

Joanne Clancy

#18. I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.

Aaron Paul

#19. Our strengths are built not with our words but with our actions,
Our fears are faced through those actions,
Our lives are shaped by these experiences
and our experiences are driven by our passions.
Where is your heart taking you...

Catherine Louise Birmingham

#20. Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it,

Frederick Leboyer

#21. Their anger is not experienced as a psychological reality but is seen through an ideology that distorts black women's lived experiences.

Melissa V. Harris-Perry

#22. Ninety-five percent of women's experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive ... women didn't go to Vietnam and blow things up. They are not Rambo.

Jodie Foster

#23. You always wrestle with depression, you always wrestle with those things, because the events and the experiences are still there, and the things that take place are still happening.

Lupe Fiasco

#24. As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

Eben Alexander

#25. One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.

Jerome K. Jerome

#26. Fiction, when it's done right, does in the daylight what dreams do at night: we leave the confines of our own experiences and go to common ground, where for a time we are not alone.

Jincy Willett

#27. A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to grow spiritually. They use their emotions to show them how to create constructive and healthy and joyful consequences instead of destructive and unhealthy and painful consequences.

Gary Zukav

#28. Being in love is one of the most powerful experiences anyone can have. I think that's why we have crushes when we're younger. Maybe it's how we get ready for real love.

Lauren Tarshis

#29. I learned that you don't have to be saddled for life with the mental attitudes you adopted in early childhood. All of us are free to change our minds, and as we change our minds, our experiences will also change.

M.J. Ryan

#30. If I'm being forgiving of myself, I could say I'm somebody who was really hungry for experiences. The same thing that would make me go try to be a trail cook on a ranch was the same thing that would make me want to have sex with a couple cowboys while I was there.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#31. Nothing spiritual to write? Then have spiritual experiences.

John H. Groberg

#32. The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon the social conventions to which he is accustomed

Bertrand Russell

#33. Personal integrity comes from integrating our life experiences with our belief systems

Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse

#34. All of us suffer some injuries from experiences that seem to have no rhyme or reason. We cannot understand or explain them. We may never know why some things happen in this life. The reason for some of our suffering is known only to the Lord.

James E. Faust

#35. All discomfort is not equal. Learning to listen will help you distinguish among effort, fatigue and pain. To what degree, under what conditions and over what period of time your body experiences these sensations will determine how you respond.

Gina Greenlee

#36. Errors, failures, They are just experiences that will obligate you to evolve.

Roberto Llamas

#37. When I talk with women who have had wonderful experiences in the military it's because their commanders treated them with respect and dignity and gave them equality with their peers that was unparalleled in their lives.

Amy Ziering

#38. They don't have to all be maidens."
"Well, that's very liberal of you," Caroline said with a sisterly smirk. "But since I can hardly hand out a questionnaire as regards their experiences in that regard, we'll have to leave it there.

Julia Quinn

#39. As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.

Ayelet Waldman

#40. Since I believe that a person's philosophical point of view has little meaning if it is not matched by being and action, I found myself willingly wed to an endless series of unpopular causes, experiences which I feel enriched my writing as much as they depleted other aspects of my life.

Howard Fast

#41. Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time.

Joshua Foer

#42. My experiences in the military, the private sector, and as a congressional staffer were at times almost enough to drive me crazy. Writing offered the all-too-often-cited creative outlet.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#43. Experiences, much more than instruction, are a seeing with the inner eye - finding a channel to our essential inner life, a door to our deepest understanding wherein we have the capacity for universal response.

Lawren Harris

#44. Falling is scary but good practice for life. We must fall. In love. Out of love. Into new experiences. Out of old habits. Deeper and further into ourselves. We must fall, life is falling over forward. The only choice we have is how we let go.

Troian Bellisario

#45. I've taken the experiences that I've had in the theatre and applied them to film and television and now games.

Kevin Spacey

#46. My greatest good fortune in a life of brilliant experiences has been to find you, and to lead my life with you. I don't feel far away from you out here at all. I feel very near in my heart; and also I feel that the nearer I get to honour, the nearer I am to you.

Winston Churchill

#47. While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.

Brennan Manning

#48. I have had many experiences that were the same. The only difference was the person that I

Alfreda Lanoix

#49. You can just stay in oblivion, going through your days and your life and your experiences, staying with your friends, family. If that suits you, it's good. But for some people, it's not enough.

Frederick Lenz

#50. I write nonfiction because individuals are unique and go through different experiences, our collective experiences enhances all our lives.

Thaddeus Lawrence

#51. The more experiences you can have as an individual makes you a fuller person and a fuller actor.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido

#52. As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.

Frank Ocean

#53. The more aware of your intentions and your experiences you become, the more you will be able to connect the two, and the more you will be able to create the experiences of your life consciously. This is the development of mastery. It is the creation of authentic power.

Gary Zukav

#54. All our experiences have led us to believe certain things about ourselves. Whether these beliefs are true or not really doesn't matter because if we accept them as true, then they are true for us.

Robert Anthony

#55. If your faith is in experiences, anything that happens is likely to upset that faith.

Oswald Chambers

#56. All experiences are welcomed and fully digested, not judged good or bad.

Brenda Shoshanna

#57. You do not choose the life you will experience ahead of time. You may select the persons, places and events - the conditions and circumstances, the challenges, the opportunities and options - with which to create experiences. What you create with these is your business.

Neale Donald Walsch

#58. Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we're adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.

Sharon Salzberg

#59. Better to step out of your comfort zone, enjoy new experiences & not know what's coming your way, than stick to routines & be bored with the same end results.

April Mae Monterrosa

#60. You must relate athletic experiences to life.

Joe Paterno

#61. As artists, when you have people that care about what you do, I think you should care about those people who care about what you do, and give them really cool interactive experiences to make them feel appreciated.

Zachary Levi

#62. Talking about peoples lived experiences is a powerful way to mobilize them. We can create new rules.

Celinda Lake

#63. Passion is the relentless pursuit of those life-enhancing activities or experiences that give our souls meaning.

Janet Hagberg

#64. Rather than seeing dreams as containing hidden messages, see dreams as experiences of empathy. Then use empathy with the dream to reconnect with the experience of dreaming itself.

Henry Reed

#65. The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.

Jacob Bronowski

#66. I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

Tracy Kidder

#67. When you have two different women coming from two very different backgrounds, it's fun for us because we get to explore how each one of them approaches their job and how they bring their own experiences to it.

Sasha Alexander

#68. Our experiences tend to support our belief systems.

T. J. MacGregor

#69. Initially, the positive emotions derived from cultivating our higher natures may be weak, but we can enhance them through constant familiarity, making our experiences of happiness and inner contentment far more powerful than a life abandoned to purely impulsive emotions.

Dalai Lama XIV

#70. What is ahead of me is fueled by the experiences behind me.

Celeste Cooper

#71. My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.

Kailash Kher

#72. I don't any longer make any quality judgement between theater and cinema. They are different experiences for the audience, and they also are for the actors - although they have a lot in common.

Ian McKellen

#73. Spiritual experiences are like mist, they will evaporate.

Jigdral Yeshe Dorje

#74. Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

Andre Maurois

#75. Death and birth are solitary experiences. We are born alone and we die alone. When we are expelled from the maternal womb, we begin the painful struggle that finally ends in death.

Octavio Paz

#76. Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#77. All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome by steady good conduct, honest zeal, activity, perseverance and above all, by a determined resolution to surmount.

Samuel Smiles

#78. The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.

Mahatma Gandhi

#79. Nowhere in the history of man has there existed someone with your particular set of experiences and skills, which means there exists a mode of play that you are unequivocally predestined to succeed in more than any other.

Chris Matakas

#80. I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends - you don't need additional reassurances that you're going to do something with a new cast of characters. I'd just as soon pass.

Lewis Thomas

#81. All spiritual experiences are sensations in the body. They are simply a graded series of sensations, beginning with the solidity of earth and passing gradually, in full consciousness, through liquidness and the emanation of heat to that of a total vibration before reaching the Void.

Sri Anirvan

#82. Depending on where you live and how you travel - whether you drive or bus or whatever - your experiences may be different. But I think that theme will be the same.

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

#83. A horse does not greet the sun and say, "Today will be better." It can only reflect upon days of past experiences. It is our job to create a positive past.

Karen West

#84. I have learned through repeated experiences that in order to heal, I MUST forgive. The forgiveness is not for the transgressor. The forgiveness is for ME.

Sharon E. Rainey

#85. We all bring out our own perceptions, needs, and experiences to everything we do.

Wendy Mass

#86. When I grew up in Ireland in the seventies there was no such thing as therapy ... I mean we didn't even have cappuccinos until 1998! So for me music was therapy, it was also the place where one could speak about himself, where he was allowed to speak about his traumatic experiences.

Sinead O'Connor

#87. The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods.

Wilhelm Dilthey

#88. What happens with experiences that really move us deeply, that really effect us? They make the world new again. What it does is it heightens our sense of mortality.

Bill Henson

#89. Although we amplify our cognitive degree of awareness and enhance our appreciation for life experiences by maturing, it also brings us death. Facing a certain death forces a person to examine the worthiness of continuing to live.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#90. All experiences come and go. What witnesses experiencing itself?

Mooji

#91. Is Wisdom derived from the accumulation of one's experiences, or rather one's thoughtful reflection upon what he has learned throughout the process?

Christopher Earle

#92. She should have remembered her past experiences in the relationship wars and not let herself get so excited. Evidently her hormones had overruled her common sense and she had become drunk on ovarian wine, the most potent, sanity- destroying substance in the universe.

Linda Howard

#93. If we give out thoughts of grouchiness and complaining, etc., we'll find more to complain about. If we send out love and affirm 'life loves me', then we are drawing experiences to ourselves that prove it's true.

Louise Hay

#94. When I first came back from Iraq, I of course found myself thinking a lot about it. Not just my experiences, but those of people I talked to, friends, and colleagues.

Phil Klay

#95. Why, I wondered, did people seek out portrayals of the very experiences that, in real life, would send them mad with despair? Shouldn't art be an escape, a laugh, a comfort, a thrill?

David Nicholls