A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.
My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later.
A lot of people blame their negative feelings on their negative experiences; but little do they know that their negative feelings are nothing but the products of their negative interpretations of their negative experiences.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Disappointment is like a death! In most cases both are not preplanned. They both come when they will come. Only that the former builds up experiences by the latter stops all form of experiences.
Experiences are the gifts from God, but we never seek those directly. You and I are to be seeking. You and I are to be hungering and thirsting after righteousness and then the experiences are the gifts.
They (the French) have taken genius instead of reason for their guide, adopted experiment instead of experience, and wander in the dark because they prefer lightning to light.
When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience.
If women were totally satisfied with their sexual and lovemaking experiences, women would welcome the lovemaking experience as much as men.
Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.
Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California.
Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.
If age and experience came at birth, We would have neither youth nor mirth.
To be religious is to have an obligation to a particular religion, but to be truly spiritual is to have a commitment to your soul."-Serena Jade
I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a very young age, and it wasn't super-strict, but it was a loving, warm household.
Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.
One doesn't have to be religious to lead a moral life or attain wisdom.
I believe religious indoctrination is child abuse.
