Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. – George Sand
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers. – Billy Joel
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. – Immanuel Kant
It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is. – Christy Turlington
You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience. – J. K. Rowling
At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality. – Princess Masako
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. – Abigail Adams
That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within. – Prem Rawat
No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City. – Michael Bloomberg
Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity. – Andrew Cohen
God is only a great imaginative experience. – David Herbert Lawrence
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. – David Herbert Lawrence
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience. – Marquis de Sade
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. – John Stuart Mill
If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids. – Bo Bennett
I write out of my intellectual experience. – Tom Stoppard
It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be. – David Bowie
The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action. – David Herbert Lawrence
High school is such a shared experience in North American culture. – Doug Coupland
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc. – Franz Kafka
