Quotes of: Personal-experiences Keyword

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.

Star Wars

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

Richard Ernst

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.

Conor Oberst

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

Thomas Malthus

For me, it's not about breaking big in Hollywood, but having interesting experiences.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

An experience which seeks not to change you, is one not worth having.

Xela Ffonrims

That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

Robert Byrd

When a man says yes, his chi [personal god] says yes also.

African

He left us and we rejoiced; then an even more unbearable person came.

Arabian

There are three kinds of person that you must not challenge: civil servants, customers and widows.

Chinese

The person who has been a slave from birth does not value rebellion.

Yoruba

Instead of communicating "I love you, so let me make life easy for you," I decided that my message needed to be something more along these lines: "I love you. I believe in you. I know what you're capable of. So I'm going to make you work.

Cleaning House: A Mom's Twelve-Month Experiment to Rid Her Home of Youth Entitlement

I had successfully attended an event by myself. I had done something that was important to me, regardless of the fact that no one else wanted to go, and I had reconnected with my long lost love of fashion. I was not shunned. I did not die or spontane...

Center of Gravity: One Woman's Experiment to Reinvent Her Entire Life Through Creativity, Spirituality, and a Leap of Faith.

There is no destination; when you manifest the love, health, money you so desire and deserve, you will have the desire to manifest more. Your soul wants all these experiences and declaring your desires is just a way of directing you towards a pathway...

Don't Think Of a Blue Ball

What makes today’s popular atheism so depressing is neither its conceptual boorishness nor its self-righteousness but simply its cultural inevitability. It is the final, predictable, and unsurprisingly vulgar expression of an ideological tradition ...

The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss

The recasting of the Origin Myth as a story about the perils of disobedience precipitated a kind of decoupling of scripture from religious experience: when religious authorities began to insist on the literal truth of scripture, they were effectively...

Entheogens, Society and Law

The Bible's "it's better to give than receive" was not the raving of a lunatic. It goes back to a recurring theme that I've found in almost all my experiments: behaviour shapes your thoughts. My brain sees me giving a gift to Julie. My brain conclude...

The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment

In a number of workshops, I have asked people whether they have had one or more experiences that they would identify as an experience of God and, if so, to share them in small groups. On average, 80 percent of the participants identify one or more an...

The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith

Neither Peter in his work to include Gentiles in the church nor the abolitionists in their campaign against slavery argued that their experience should take precedence over Scripture. But they both made the case that their experience should cause Chr...

God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships

We must do business in great waters; we must be really on the deck in a storm, if we would see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep. We must have stood side by side with King David; we must have gone down into the pit to slay the lion or...

Gleanings Among the Sheaves