When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.

I've lost seven friends to smoking-related lung cancer. Each death was a long, agonizing experience.

“For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.” 

"You take all of the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it."

Research your own experience; absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is essentially your own.

“Experience gives us confidence, but we never get experience unless we step out and try things we have not tried before.” 

“As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are transformed, and sometimes rise to the surface and sprout like strange plants from other worlds. What is the fertile humus of the subconscious composed of? Why are certain images converted into recurrent themes in nightmares or writing?” 

“Experience is a keen teacher;” 

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

“Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.”

The great “deloading” phase. This is what I’m experiencing this afternoon, and it makes a Tuesday feel like a lazy Sunday morning. This is when the muse is most likely to visit. I need to get back to the slack.

“A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.” 

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.” 

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.

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.

All artists experience a lull in their work. It is a period of replenishing the soil – of plowing in and turning under our past experiences and watering them afresh with new ones.

“That’s why male adults, and some females too, experience the presence of a strong woman as a dangerous regression to a time of their own vulnerability and dependence.” 

“The difficulty, after having the experience to symbolize, lies only in having enough imagination to suspend it in a thought; and further to give this thought such verbal expression that others may be able to decipher it, and to be stirred by it as by a wind of suggestion sweeping the whole forest of their memories.”

“It also reminds me of an organizing principle: Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.” 

“It also reminds me of an organizing principle: Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.”