You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
He who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
Experience is the teacher of all things.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dalí.
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.
No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
Life is short, art is long, opportunity is fleeting, experience misleading the judgment difficult.
the experience taught me: nothing is impossible.
inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
My experience is what I agree to attend to.
To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and perhaps with will.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
As we observe children, we see the vitality of their spirit, the maximum effort put forth in all they do, the intuition, attention and focus they bring to all life’s events, and the sheer joy they experience in living.
Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
"Cultivate truth, good faith, experience, cleverness, sociability, and industry.
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.
The attitude of the men is equally worthy of admiration...there is a rush to be first when work is to be done, and the same desire to sacrifice selfish consideration to the success of the expedition...Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ability, and enthusiasm to achieve nothing.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Music needs 3 things: Art, technique and experiences. Without them it is not possible to write music.