Quotes of: Actual-experience Keyword

Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are mis...

A Visit from the Goon Squad

I had built such a wall between my experiences and how I felt about those experiences that I was incapable of reliving both simultaneously. I could talk about my traumas, even walk through them, but I couldn’t feel them. When I tried to bring it al...

Women Will Save the World

While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gain ing ideas,...

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

If we define optimism broadly as the tendency to maintain a positive outlook, then realistic optimism is the tendency to maintain a positive outlook within the constraints of the available "measurable phenomena situated in the physical and social wor...

Sandra L. Schneider

Every day is a grand adventure into the great unknown and you cannot know what lies around the next corner. So, standing in this place, with the unknown before you, you have only two choices: you can live in trust (believing you are safe and that goo...

Kimberly Giles

If you want to help someone move on, you don’t label people as good, bad, worst or best. This categorizes people, rather than experiences with that person. People are not all evil or all good. You don’t teach compassion by categorizing people. Em...

Shannon L. Alder

One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good thing in that it conferred 'experience' on the despised and much-deceived wife. Well, the main 'experience' involved the comprehensive fouling-up of the...

Christopher Hitchens

My smile lights up a million stars always. I create beauty with my hands and I radiate beauty from within. I make a fashion statement wherever I go and I always see beauty wherever I go. Life is an experience that brings out the best in me. I triumph...

Jenelle Joanne Ramsami

The temptation is to make an idol of our own experience, to assume our pain is more singular than it is. Experience means nothing if it does not mean beyond itself: we mean nothing unless and until our hard-won meanings are internalized and catalyzed...

Christian Wiman

That a free, or at least an unsaturated acid usually exists in the stomachs of animals, and is in some manner connected with the important process of digestion, seems to have been the general opinion of physiologists till the time of . This illustrio...

Love

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Caravan of Dreams

As dull as Nate Gray is," Will said, "his head is not actually filled with gears, Henry. He's a human.

Clockwork Prince

Actually, all the life we keep deceiving eachother. Because, life is too short to hate someone.

The Cavalier

They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.

The Chocolate War

Brastias. My friend.” Uh-oh, this couldn’t be good. “Do you lie to me?” “Uh . . . no.” “See? That’s a lie!

Dragon Actually

You two are perfect together. And one day . . . one day your children will change everything.

Dragon Actually

What's better, I thought, to be safe and suffer alone, or to risk pain and actually live?

Die for Me

She couldn’t actually think of a time when Colton Brooks hadn’t owned a little piece of her heart.

Dare to Resist

Sometimes God's sudden turn in your life feels like a detour, but in actuality it is the straightest way to your destiny!

Eve of Awakening

Oh, this is going to be fun; he actually thinks he's teaching me something.

The Edge of Never

You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there?

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader