Quotes about Experience
Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the most important lesson we can learn is how to love. How to love better.
- Paulo Coelho
That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
- Paulo Coelho
The feet of labourers, pilgrims and explorers smoothed these stones. The stones were changed and the travellers were too.
- Paulo Coelho
The act of living one's own destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understanding, whose objective is always to... make us learn the lessons necessary to fulfill our own destiny.
- Paulo Coelho
Shugendo means: "the way of the art of accumulating experience" - he replied, revealing that his interests go beyond the variety of insects in the region - By disciplining one's body to accept everything nature has to offer; in this way you will also educate your soul for that which God has to offer.
- Paulo Coelho
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
- Will Rogers
The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.
- Bishop TD Jakes
A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.
- Henry David Thoreau
Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.
- Joseph Brodsky
An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
- Wendell Berry
Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
- Ernest Hemingway
Live, for this is the time of your life.
- William Saroyan