Experiential Living Quotes

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

If you put your cameras down you might be able to live in the moment. You have a memory there of something you've never lived.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

I don't want to live my life in a five-star hotel. That's not real life to me. You can't appreciate it.

The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.

O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Every American wants MORE & MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate more & more dead matter, machinery, possessions & rugs & fact information at the expense of what really counts as more: feeling, good feeling, sex feeling, tenderness feeling, mutual feeling. You own twice as much rug if you're twice as aware of the rug.

The less you carry the more you will see, the less you spend the more you will experience.

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

I think you want to try every sport possible just to experience life.

But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now, I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase.

Life is being, not having.

Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.

It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again. But I believe you’re always as good as your potential. I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. Fame will go by, and, so long, I’ve had you fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.

I want to live my life, not record it.

I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.

Life, he decided, was for living, not for having, and he wanted to experience every moment that he could.

Stop taking pictures and start experiencing life.

I think that young people are less attached to items and objects now. They're less attached to consuming things and accruing things because they see it as a system that doesn't necessarily work and give them a sense of adulthood and fulfillment. They're much more in tune with wanting to achieve a skill, a form of self-expression, or a body of knowledge that fulfills the same function, fulfills their adulthood.

I own nothing of value at all. I spend money on experiences.

Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life

It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you're offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter.

I don't buy diamonds, I don't buy cars, but I enjoy travelling. I'm not a very possessive person as far as things go.