109 Powerful Life Experience Quotes

In our journey through life, we encounter a plethora of experiences that shape who we are and how we view the world. These moments, whether profound or subtle, often leave an indelible mark, influencing our thoughts, actions, and resilience. To encapsulate the essence of these transformative experiences, we've gathered a curated collection of the top 109 powerful life experience quotes. Each quote offers a unique perspective, providing wisdom, inspiration, and a reflective pause as you navigate your personal and professional life. Whether you're seeking motivation or a new way to view your challenges, these quotes serve as a timeless reminder of the lessons and beauty found in the tapestry of life.

1. “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” - William Blake

2. “The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.” - Katherine Mansfield

3. “We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.” - T. S. Eliot

4. “I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.” - Zora Neale Hurston

5. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” - Carl Gustav Jung

6. “I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.” - Edna St. Vincent Millay

7. “Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.” - Sherrilyn Kenyon

8. “Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.” - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

9. “A mature soul filled with scars of life experiences.” - Toba Beta

10. “Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.” - William Faulkner

11. “the greatest men that ever live pass away unknown. they put forth no claims for themselves, establish no schools of systems in their name. they never create or stir but just melt down into love” - Tom Robbins

12. “We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.” - Ray Bradbury

13. “The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” - Jean-Paul Sartre

14. “The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings.” - Pittacus Lore

15. “All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and voila, the rest of your life you're green.” - Tess Callahan

16. “Think of it as a life experience," I mumbled. "Isn't your dad always saying we need more of that?""I don't think prancing around PJ Jamieson's pool in our underwear is exactly what he had in mind.” - Jody Gehrman

17. “Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing.” - C. JoyBell C.

18. “Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.” - Robert Cormier

19. “The one thing that you can be sure about of what mankind has learned over the centuries...is that he has paid attention to none of it.” - Tonny K. Brown

20. “I walked a mile with Pleasure;She chatted all the way;But left me none the wiserFor all she had to say.I walked a mile with Sorrow;And ne’er a word said she;But, oh! The things I learned from her,When Sorrow walked with me.” - Robert Browning Hamilton

21. “Advice," Doña Vorchenza chuckled. "Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.” - Scott Lynch

22. “Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow” - Larry Michael Dredla

23. “A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown. When you face the blank page and you have no idea where you're going. It can be terrifying, but it can also be the adventure of a lifetime.” - Michael Piller

24. “Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.” - Bohdi Sanders

25. “[Poem: Slates of Grey]Sullen faces like slates of grey—What I’d seen on a walk today.Bodies rushing bodies boltingTime for life a disregarding.Money to make and to grow oldWhat about the hands to hold?Deadlines, projects, people to meetWhat about our own two feet.Sullen faces like slates of grey...What I’d see most anyday.” - Jess C. Scott

26. “In all your getting, get understanding.” - Jacqueline Woodson

27. “Sometimes it’s the mistakes that turn out to be thebest parts of life,” - Carrie Ryan

28. “Finding out how the rest of the world lives is a normal part of rumschpringe. I didn't think it was up to my father-or my bishop-to squash that kind of curiosity.” - Mary Ellis

29. “We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.” - Chris Bohjalian

30. “Life isn't sure, life is scary, It doesn't mean you stop living it.” - Susan May Warren

31. “Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope.” - Gayla Reid

32. “My burden is my purpose. Without it, I wouldn't be.” - Solange nicole

33. “I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anything definable. It was just another happening like today's luncheon, something I got into and got out of. And it reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonably well-intentioned man can walk through the world's great kitchen from end to end and arrive at the back door hungry.” - Wallace Stegner

34. “Good judgment comes from bad experience. Unfortunately, most of that comes from bad judgment.- Tara Daniels -” - Jill Shalvis

35. “I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time” - Laurell K. Hamilton

36. “I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.” - Jamaica Kincaid

37. “Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything” - Sarah Addison Allen

38. “Entre lo poco que sé de la vida, también te diré que nada de todo esto vale la pena sin alguien que te haga ser incoherente.Ni flores, ni velas, ni luz de luna. Ése es el verdadero romanticismo. Alguien que llegue, te empuje a hacer cosas de las que jamás te creíste capaz y que arrase de un plumazo con tus principios, tus valores, tus yo nunca, tus yo qué va.” - Risto Mejide

39. “Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.” - Brian Rathbone

40. “Go far from home and yo will have a long way back.” - Suzanne Woods Fisher

41. “Leeda knew friends never turned out to be what you expected. They came and went in waves, pulling away and coming back, leaving you feeling safe one minute and lost the next.” - Jodi Lynn Anderson

42. “On the top of Cadair Idris,I felt how happy a man might bewith a little money and a sane intellect,and reflected with astonishment and pityon the madness of the multitude.” - Thomas Love Peacock

43. “Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost.” - Kellie Elmore

44. “I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared.” - Anne Brontë

45. “I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something... set yourself on something... and then you don't want it. Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies?” - Stephen King

46. “One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.” - Frank Herbert

47. “Whatever life throws at me, I'll take with a smile upon my face and Nirvana's 'Bleach' on the stereo.” - Mark R. Faulkner

48. “Life is still better than University. In school, your teacher is the fruit picker and you are the open fruit basket. Then you take those fruits and make cakes and pies. But life is going to give you the chance to go out there and pick those fruits yourself. Then you can eat them, or make them into something else; any which way, your own hands picked them!” - C. JoyBell C.

49. “The only limits we have are the ones we give ourselves.” - Stefanie Oberhansley

50. “Loneliness is something that finds us all when we think about it and when we're by ourselves when we don't want to be. It creeps up when we desperately feel like we need someone special but can't seem to find anything more than a friend that wishes they could help. Sometimes a friend cannot be found when your willing to settle for one. Sometimes it passes quickly, and sometimes it sticks around to try to drive us to insanity. Its like a creature lying in wait to take us at our weakest moment, but only toying with us when we give up to it. In the end it always passes. There is always something to appreciate and someone to cheer us up. We adapt and overcome. Life is a gift with much more to it than a passing emotion. All around us are beautiful things to console us. Life is much more than one feeling. It is as great as we let it be.” - Joshua Hartzell

51. “You always lose a lot of money chasing after women, but you will never lose a lot of women chasing after money” - Foster "Raul" Mkhabele

52. “Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you.” - Veronica Roth

53. “there is no understanding between me and this worldthey don't understand me and i don't care them.” - adnan khan

54. “Life teach you lessons and those lessons are very painful.” - adnan khan

55. “Life is not a one act play” - Alex M. Smith

56. “We can never fully impact others to change if there is no evidence of change in our lives.” - E'yen A. Gardner

57. “Only those who leave home ever really find it.” - Gene Ruyle

58. “One has to be at least as ancient as I am now to see that if you try to make sense of life, if you look for patterns and meaning, not only are you bound to be disappointed, you are likely to waste a good deal of precious time.” - Andrew Levkoff

59. “She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~” - Susan Wiggs

60. “I don't blame anyone for my failures i blame myself for not seeing what's really ahead of me...” - Dj-trippin

61. “Whenever there is love beyond boundaries .... Whenever trust flows deeper than oceans .... Nevertheless, a Trial is born .... You pass that trial, sacred you shall be .... if you don't, your are immortal !!!!” - M.W.Latif

62. “There are some things you can’t learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

63. “We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is my abandonment.” - Rock Peter

64. “and dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people-preferably our parents, our spouses or our children-for our failure to realize our dreams.” - Paulo Coelho

65. “Situation & experience both are different thing, they do not have a mutual relationship. Because the experiencce depends on how we look to tackle or handle the situation. Situation may be the same but experience may not be the same regularly".” - Vaibhav Soni

66. “... insanity is never reasonable.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

67. “The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one’s grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

68. “-Mary: Il sesso senza amore è un'esperienza vuota!-Isaac: Beh, ma tra le esperienze vuote è una delle migliori.” - Woody Allen

69. “Being alive hurts. I have found it best not to rush for the aspirin bottle. - A Severed Wasp” - Madeline L'Engle

70. “Tegar dan pandai menyembunyikan perasaan adalah ciri-ciri orang yang sangat rapuh.” - Layla R. Aprilyani

71. “Setidaknya saya tidak bersuara di tempat yang tidak semestinya.” - Layla R. Aprilyani

72. “ When perception and reality collide, we grow".” - Keylee Dawn Austin

73. “To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this seems to be fitting for the nature of our human life: we are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.” - Pope Benedict-XVI

74. “Girls say to me, very reasonably, 'why isn't it a bunch of girls? Why did you write this about a bunch of boys?' Well, my reply is I was once a little boy - I have been a brother, a father, I am going to be a grandfather. I have never been a sister, or a mother, or a grandmother. That's one answer. Another answer is of course to say that if you - as it were - scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more ike a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be. Don't ask me why, and this is a terrible thing to say because I'm going to be chased from hell to breakfast by all the women who talk about equality - this is nothing to do with equality at all. I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been. But one thing you can't do with them is take a bunch of them and boil them down, so to speak, into a set of little girls who would then become a kind of image of civilisation, of society. The other thing is - why aren't they little boys AND little girls? Well, if they'd been little boys and little girls, we being who we are, sex would have raised its lovely head, and I didn't want this to be about sex. Sex is too trivial a thing to get in with a story like this, which was about the problem of evil and the problem of how people are to live together in a society, not just as lovers or man and wife.” - William Golding

75. “المرأة العاقلة تضع السكر في كل ما تقوله للرجل وتنزع الملح من كل ما يقوله لها الرجل” - انيس منصور

76. “You can't force feed a fool. They are blind to their need.” - E'yen A. Gardner

77. “What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

78. “I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this is all you get. You get me, and your family, and this world. This is your life. I'm sorry if it sucks. But you're not going to be the first man on Mars and you're not going to be an NBA star, and you're not going to hunt Nazis.” - John Green

79. “In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away.” - Derrick Jensen

80. “To defend my fear of sudden change, I chose to believe that life was incremental, that the tiny decisions you make every day determine your fate, that your job is to captain an enormous ship subtly into ever-clearer waters. But that’s not how it works at all. Life occurs in moments. You get into college. You propose. You get the job. You get cancer. You get fired. She leaves you...Because I was born in a stable country at a stable time, I falsely extrapolated that change is incremental. But if you zoom out just a little bit, you see that life is soccer, not basketball. It’s revolution, invention, war. It’s big bangs, exploding stars, asteroids killing the dinosaurs. Which means that all the action is in the risk taking, whether I want it to be or not.” - Joel Stein

81. “One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.” - Iain M. Banks

82. “Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods.” - Rudy Rucker

83. “I experience the age I am now as an age at which I must ensure that I already am what I insist or believe I am going to be.” - Justin Smith

84. “Pain is pain, babe. Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less.” - J.A. Redmerski

85. “The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make . . . and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change.” - Brian Herbert

86. “Life is real, not ideal.” - Heather Muzik

87. “Time moves forward don’t live backwards” - E'yen A. Gardner

88. “I have never been a violent man. Just a little creepy, it seems.” - Tim Winton

89. “Love what you do and your heart will lead the rest of the way.” - Jill Telford

90. “لا وجود للفشل إنما هناك رأياً محدداً علي تجربة” - ابراهيم الفقى

91. “Once you taste a little of the sweetness that life can be, there really is no going back.” - Liza Palmer

92. “Being myself is the one thing that people would want to see out of me, they don't want to see me being the fake person that the world wants me to be, all they want to see is the real me, the real person that is inside of me.” - erica maples

93. “Ladies, set your standards high. Never lower them.. The day you do, you will get less then what you deserve.Every woman, deserves to be treated like a queen with respect. It's better to be single and fabulous on your own then to be in a relationship that isn't what you always dreamed of.” - erica maples and Stefany Terherst

94. “That was the splendid thing about life: Though it was cruel, it was also mysterious, filled with wonder and surprise; sometimes the surprises were so amazing that they qualified as miraculous, and by witnessing those miracles, a despondent person could discover a reason to live, a cynic could obtain unexpected relief from ennui, and a profoundly wounded boy could find the will to heal himself and medicine for melancholy.” - Dean Koontz

95. “What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and evil existed in the world came from within themselves and not from some abstract source.” - Terry Brooks

96. “The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

97. “She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?” - Rachel Abbott

98. “We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

99. “It was awful, he cried, awful, awful!Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.” - Virginia Woolf

100. “Es una tontería lamentarse de una desgracia con veinte años de anticipación.” - Emily Brontë

101. “Never tell a mother how she has to raise her children and give no advice over their schooling, health or nutrition if you are not asked to.” - Rossana Condoleo

102. “Intrinsic values and qualities are age-free. For example, social competencies or a good heart.” - Rossana Condoleo

103. “Being giving is a big quality. Being too giving is a big mistake!” - Rossana Condoleo

104. “What about thinking of happiness as a right instead than as a gift?” - Rossana Condoleo

105. “Let your projects be independent organisms. They will develop their own beautiful architecture.” - Rossana Condoleo

106. “Do the things you like to be happier, stronger & more successful. Only so is hard work replaced by dedication.” - Rossana Condoleo

107. “Divorce = Rebirth: forget the past, replan your life, improve your appearance & REJUVENATE!” - Rossana Condoleo

108. “Divorce is the start point for a brand new life. Don't lose the chance to redesign it upon your dreams!” - Rossana Condoleo

109. “Never cry for the same reason twice.” - Stephen Richards