All Quotes By Tag: Experience

“Material goods rarely alter our levels of happiness, unlike emotional experience. Having can never replace being. -Ilsa Crawford”

“It wasn’t right that you could only understand your parents’ pain once you’d experienced the things they had, and by then they were gone.”

“Buddha has walked for an eternity, but his eternity is different from ours. Just as the footprints that he leaves. When we follow in his footsteps, each step of Buddha’s, is in itself, a universe of knowledge which can take many lifetimes for us to discover and learn about.Then, just as we have learnt about this universe and life of ours, we move on to the next step, and then that, too, becomes a new universe to learn about.It is a quest, and a learning experience which we will never finish, and it is one that I have no wish to.”

“You don’t have to be in a perfect situation to be happy.You just have to feel at peace with the world.”

“You know, doctor, wisdom comes at a hell of an hour—when youth is gone, the storm is over and the girls have gone home.”

“There is a part of us in everyone else.”

“That is the paradox of the human condition. If we humbly accept that our experience of reality is constrained, we immediately loosen the chains that bind us, and we begin to expand.”

“Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning… and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.”

“People who spend money on experiences instead of things are just happier all around.”

“Waiting for an experience elicits more happiness than waiting for a material good… When we spend money on experiences, those purchases are also more associated with our identity, connection and social behavior.”

“Every time you victimized someone,” I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.”

“All the things you want and need in life are through the door marked ‘Wisdom’.”

“If you really lose the will, and there’s no copy of you to do , in your possession if you realize that no one does it like you then you have all the will”

“Experience is not the best teacher. The consequence from experience is the best teacher. No consequence no lesson.”

“Doing something we do not find difficult or challenging rarely grows us.”