Suffering is only suffering if it's done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.
Forgive other people before you ask for forgiveness… As you forgive, you will be forgiven.
There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
Some people would rather live in a hell they've got used to than in a paradise they've never experienced before.
As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.
Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.
I have experienced firsthand the tremendous impact breast cancer has on the women who fight it and the loved ones who support them. This is a disease that catches you unaware and, without the right resources, leaves you feeling frightened and alone.
As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.
I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I have become an environmental campaigner.
You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.
I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
A warrior becomes experienced by being defeated; a scholar by making mistakes. Defeat and mistakes we have left in the past," he said.
On the other hand, the 'heart' is just as important in that it is the 'other' way of knowing and experiencing". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]
We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence.
English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.
... I have just experienced the most passionate kiss I've ever received from a guy, and it was on the freaking forehead!
He's not learning. He's not experiencing. He's remembering. He walks to the next screen, hungry to be himself again.
Jealousy is an ugly emotion that makes people do some seriously whacked shit and when a woman is experiencing it, it's worse.
He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of hell spurs on to commit sin.
And I was normally a pretty emotional person. In any given day, I experienced a hundred different things like I was trying ice cream flavors.
The future cannot be determined. I can only be experienced as it is occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.
