Experience Quotes

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. … All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

Meditation isn’t really about getting rid of thoughts, it’s about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

Somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near.