Famous Quotes

"All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions."

Bodhidharma on Experience

More quotes about Experience

• "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."

  Soren Kierkegaard on Experience

• "The only source of knowledge is experience."

  Albert Einstein on Experience

• "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

  C. S. Lewis on Experience

• "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

  Oscar Wilde on Experience

• "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

  Mark Twain on Experience

More quotes by Bodhidharma

• "The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion."

• "And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment."

• "Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain."

• "Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will."

• "But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes."