Quotes of: Long-experience Keyword

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.

The Last Lecture

If just one of [those people] experiences life as a crazy adventure--and I mean that he, or she, experiences this every single day... Then he or she is a joker in a pack of cards.

The Solitaire Mystery

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.

The Story of My Experiments With Truth

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

The Story of My Experiments With Truth

Without setbacks and mistakes, no experience. Without experience, no learning. And without learning, you’ll never truly understand the awakening of your heart’s desires.

One Less. One More.

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

De Profundis

I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.

Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society

Religion is the subjective experience. Science is the objective reality. To argue either is a ridiculous waste of time and energy.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Spirituality is the poetry of our experience. Science is the gauge of our reality. Together, they create the essence of our humanity.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

If at first you don’t succeed, you’re doing it wrong. Learn from the experience. Try again, but with a different approach.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is only ungratefulness.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an experience for those who reserve the chance to read them for when they are in the best condition to enjoy the...

Italo Calvino

In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things from another angle entirely; one experiences oneself during the process of writing.

Herta Muller

Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments.

Robert Barany

I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.

Terry McMillan

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.

Tom Perrotta

I think we should always remember that reading -- the experience of a book -- is a very private, very personal kind of thing. Sometimes the best response to such an experience is: silence.

Lloyd Alexander

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

Malcolm Gladwell

Friendship is not a remedy for loneliness. Loneliness is part of our experience, and if we are looking for relief from loneliness in friendship, we are only going to frustrate the friendship. Friendship, camaraderie, intimacy, all those things, and l...

Rich Mullins

Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.

Maurice Sendak