Quotes about Experience

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Life loves the liver of it.

Life is just a chance to grow a soul.

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

Experience is a teacher, a brutal teacher. But you learn, my God, do you learn.

Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Give me a young man in whom there is something of the old, and an old man with something of the young: guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again