Experience Quotes

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

Everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel it very deeply.

People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.

It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.

[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

When I fell into modeling, because I wanted to work in fashion. I wanted to do styling or make-up. I ended getting picked up to be a model instead during my work experience.

I don't think that it's possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it's simple.

In my experience, cats and beds seem to be a natural combination.

The act of giving expands one's entire life experience because nothing is more fulfilling than one's capacity to give.

True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.

Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.

But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience.

Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it's a fun place to live.

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

Going to my shows, it's like a religious experience, because you come out, you go in one person, you come out a different person.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction.

We are united to Him, we are one, and it is when His Passion becomes real to us, through experience and love, that we grow aware of His presence in us.

Those two principles: We're supposed to love one another and we're supposed to work together to make the experience better. That's all the religion you need, really, to make a success of this planet.

No part of your experience is wasted. Everything you've experienced so far is part of what you were meant to learn.

It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.

Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.

By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace.

Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

To me, that's the wealth of my life: my friends and family and the experience I get to share with them.

Your education experience, talent intelligence, and financial situations don't matter. The important thing is the direction in which you focus your unique, powerful, creative mind

The key point to understand is that prosperity is an internal experience, not an external state, and it is an experience that is not tied to having a certain amount of money.

You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'

Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that seem the most mysterious.

When we let go of believing we are superior, we open ourselves to the experience of living in the community of Nature.

There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform

You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy.

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

If you are going to experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, it is not just going to be a phrase. You've got to work during meditation. So back to the navel center!

I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy and that it, like reason, makes no sense if conceived in a partial way.

I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.

Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.

I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.

Because Jesus Christ suffered greatly, He understands our suffering. He understands our grief. We experience hard things so that we too may have increased compassion and understanding for others.

The worst experience can bring out a person's deepest strength.

Through lovingly embracing the full range of our experience- human and divine- we can heal the split that existed between the spirit and the form, in ourselves individually and in the whole world.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.

How soon will you realize that the only thing you don't have is the direct experience that there's nothing you need that you don't have?