Sept. 5, 2024, 5:45 a.m.
Life is a journey filled with highs, lows, challenges, and triumphs. Along the way, our experiences shape who we become, teaching us invaluable lessons and molding our perspectives. Quotes about life experiences provide snippets of wisdom that resonate with our personal journeys, offering insight, motivation, and sometimes, a comforting reminder that we are not alone in our struggles or successes. In this compilation, you'll find 43 thoughtfully selected quotes that capture the essence of living fully and learning deeply from every moment. Whether you seek inspiration, reflection, or a fresh perspective, these quotes are sure to speak to the heart of your own life's adventure.
1. “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” - William Blake
2. “Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.” - Jean-Paul Sartre
3. “I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.” - W.H. Auden
4. “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
5. “Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow” - Larry Michael Dredla
6. “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
7. “In all your getting, get understanding.” - Jacqueline Woodson
8. “It's like I get into a roller coaster, and sit there while it goes up and down and upside down and sometimes I get thrown out and I hit my head, but I crawl back in again and the moment I'm back in, it just keeps on going and going again...all of this, so I can find things out and then I write about the things I find out so you can find them out from me. All the bruises, all the wounds, all the bumps on the head, all the scars, just so I can take that and I can write all these things, and sometimes I say "God, I don't want to be in this roller coaster anymore." But when I think about it, if I'm not right here, then where the hell would I be? On the sidewalk? I wasn't born to stand on the sidewalk, I was born to fly around crazy in the sky!” - C. JoyBell C.
9. “Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope.” - Gayla Reid
10. “every person must be good, but every person need to be an evil” - bokir166
11. “Good judgment comes from bad experience. Unfortunately, most of that comes from bad judgment.- Tara Daniels -” - Jill Shalvis
12. “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
13. “Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.” - Brian Rathbone
14. “Go far from home and yo will have a long way back.” - Suzanne Woods Fisher
15. “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
16. “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
17. “Whatever life throws at me, I'll take with a smile upon my face and Nirvana's 'Bleach' on the stereo.” - Mark R. Faulkner
18. “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.
19. “I didn’t know then that young girls were a sort of poison, infectious to the man of age; and that men of age justly take woman of age to cure themselves of the diseases of youth.” - Roman Payne
20. “there is no understanding between me and this worldthey don't understand me and i don't care them.” - adnan khan
21. “Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.I have sent up my gladness on wings, to be lost in the blue of the sky.I have run and leaped with the rain, I have taken the wind to my breast.My cheek like a drowsy child to the face of the earth I have pressed.Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.I have kissed young love on the lips, I have heard his song to the end.I have struck my hand like a seal in the loyal hand of a friend.I have known the peace of heaven, the comfort of work done well.I have longed for death in the darkness and risen alive out of hell.Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.I give a share of my soul to the world where my course is run.I know that another shall finish the task I must leave undone.I know that no flower, nor flint was in vain on the path I trod.As one looks on a face through a window, through life I have looked on God.Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.” - Amelia Josephine Burr
22. “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
23. “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
24. “-Mary: Il sesso senza amore è un'esperienza vuota!-Isaac: Beh, ma tra le esperienze vuote è una delle migliori.” - Woody Allen
25. “Ecstasy..."When you increase your ability to create ecstasy out of those things found in everyday life, all of your ecstatic sensual experiences grow deeper.” - Barabara Carrellas
26. “Kadang pola pemikiran bisa berubah 180 derajat karena keadaan, kondisi dan situasi. Bahkan hati yang semula sangat tenang bisa mejadi gelisah karena pikiran seperti kata Deff Leppard "you could only change your heart if you only change your mind". Menjadi diri sendiri adalah pilihan yang tepat, keep smiling.” - Layla R. Aprilyani
27. “Setidaknya saya tidak bersuara di tempat yang tidak semestinya.” - Layla R. Aprilyani
28. “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
29. “المرأة العاقلة تضع السكر في كل ما تقوله للرجل وتنزع الملح من كل ما يقوله لها الرجل” - انيس منصور
30. “La felicidad es vivir sintiendo, lo menos posible, que el hombre, en realidad, está solo.” - Banana Yoshimoto
31. “One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.” - Iain M. Banks
32. “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
33. “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
34. “The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
35. “She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?” - Rachel Abbott
36. “We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.” - E.A. Bucchianeri
37. “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
38. “Es una tontería lamentarse de una desgracia con veinte años de anticipación.” - Emily Brontë
39. “Life is absolutely, mysteriously beautiful.” - Tom Spanbauer
40. “Intrinsic values and qualities are age-free. For example, social competencies or a good heart.” - Rossana Condoleo
41. “Divorce = Rebirth: forget the past, replan your life, improve your appearance & REJUVENATE!” - Rossana Condoleo
42. “Divorce is the start point for a brand new life. Don't lose the chance to redesign it upon your dreams!” - Rossana Condoleo
43. “If we could eliminate the concept of town and return to live in small villages, all world problems were solved.” - Rossana Condoleo