Quotes of: Rewarding-experiences Keyword

The test of mountain-top experiences, of mysticism, of visions of God and of solitariness is when you are “in the soup” of actual circumstances.

Shade of His Hand

A mortal person's mind is like a wilderness, with a tremendous volume of decaying constructs and half-understood experience forming natural harbors for wild animal effects.

Split Infinity

You will find beauty in every person and experience if beauty has been cultivated within.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Cats were not, in her experience, an animal with much soul. Prosaic, practical little creatures as a general rule. It would suit her very well to be thought catlike.

Soulless

Once you transcend the illusions you will discover that — you — are the most thrilling experience you will ever have.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The world is full of alluring, flashy and thrilling experiences, which are illusionary traps — they are paths to nowhere.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

There was no experience, I thought, quite as wonderful as being an American in Paris.

Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

If you think that you're so smart and holy, that means you haven't yet realized that a part of what we experience today...is a result of our stupidity and wickedness in the past.

Master of Stupidity

In my experience when a friend unloaded about a boyfriend or spouse, the listener soaked up the complaint and remembered it long after the speaker had forgiven the offense.

My Beloved World

The two of them simply weren't attracted to just any attractive, eligible man; they were attracted rarely, but when it happened, it was evidently a life-altering experience.

Night Whispers

I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.

Old Bugs

The whole world is now one vast uncontrollable experiment - the way it always was, Crake would have said - and the doctrine of unintended consequences is in full spate.

Oryx and Crake

One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table, and yet at the same time, It's a miracle, it's an ecstasy.

To the Lighthouse

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Letter from the Birmingham Jail

While you can't control your experiences, you can control your explanations.

Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

We don’t need to take off our pants and stand naked in the snow to experience the harshness of life; a clever person even can feel it with a bottle of wine.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.

Looking for God in Harry Potter

What happens to you during Life may seem out of your control; how you perceive each experience, however... good or bad... is totally up to you.

Look into the stillness