The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you're in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life - you write about the mindset you're in at that moment.
The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.
What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.
An experience like 'The West Wing' is what I would imagine - even though I've never done it - that surfing feels like. It's, like, 'Whoa! I can just stand up here and ride this without all the anxiety!'
We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
Tragedy makes you grow up.
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
There is no compression algorithm for experience.
I think each college experience is different for everyone.
I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.
New startups embody the creativity, the innovation of young people, and for me, it was and is a very worthwhile experience to interact with them.
When you come into my pieces, it's not an intellectual experience, it's a physical experience. It's coming at your body. There's light, there's sound, the lights in some pieces are going on and off. There's loud roaring sound happening.
If you're not willing to work, you're never going to be able to experience the American Dream.
The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
Experience is the extract of suffering.
My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
I love the unknown, and any day that I get to experience someplace new is a good day.
I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.
I try to be respectful about getting an honor or recognition, but I don't really know what the Rock Hall actually is. In my experience with the people who run it, I don't see it having to do with anything other than them making money.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.