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Surely all art is the result of one having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

I know it is an experience that I need to have if God putting me through it.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.

If merely feeling good could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, I have been through worse.

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves do not get right.

But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.