Embrace Experiences Quotes

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

Will you look back on life and say, 'I wish I had,' or 'I’m glad I did'?

I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.

I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world.

Don't live life as a spectator.

You are here to experience life, not to escape from it.

You can’t embrace your whole life if you’re shut down.

Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.

I wouldn't change a thing in my life, even if I could. What you go through makes you who you are and that's fine.

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.

One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.

Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know - and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known.

To get the best out of life here ...Good grief. There's plenty of it about, so indulge. Give yourself some thing to remember. Fall in love. Fall out of love. Gamble. Get drunk. See how long you can stay awake. Go for long walks at night. Discover what you're afraid of doing, and then do it.

Don't let your life revolve around whatever you're trying not to do or feel. Live to experience, not to avoid.

You have to digest life. You have to chew it up and love it all through.

As an ardent supporter of the Nietzschean conception of the eternal recurrence, I firmly believe that one cannot validate the totality of a life unless one accepts and embraces all the experiences that comprise it. That said, I sometimes wish I'd gone to film school.

You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality. When at last age has assembled you together, will it not be easy to let it all go, lived, balanced, over?

Experiences aren't given to us to be 'got over,' otherwise they would hardly be experiences.

I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird.

I don't regret anything I've ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time

Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

Being Jesus means that we go through life embracing it all fully and feeling it all deeply. That we don’t hide and try to protect ourselves. That we live. That we show up. That we laugh. That we cry. That we hurt. That we heal. That we care. That we love. And then, that we wake up the next morning and sign up for it all over again.