Quotes about Experience
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
- Sonia Sotomayor
I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.
- Humphrey Bogart
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
- Joseph Campbell
God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.
- Albert Schweitzer
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.
- Thomas Merton
Learn to get from the day. Not just get through it, get from it. Soak it up. Each day is a piece of the mosaic of your life.
- Jim Rohn
Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.
- Nikki Giovanni
Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.
- John Maxwell
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
The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.
- Corrie Ten Boom
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.