I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
What many refer to as intuition, then, is not the untaught or unteachable but instead is a learned understanding and respect of process, molded by experience and refined over a great deal of time and practice.
We are living a life full of first experiences, from a first kiss, to the first time giving blood, to conceptual and philosophical explanations of humanity’s firsts.
It was his experience that one did poorly by involving oneself in matters of local religion. The world looked one way if you believed, and another if you did not, and that was all there was to it.
The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.
Here in your heart, deep in your soul, resides the universe’s collective wisdom, waiting for expression through your life’s experience.
Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.
In my experience, people who want to keep their painful injuries are using them as a crutch. They’re hiding from something.
...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.
I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home- and my sanity depends on it.
I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home — and my sanity depends on it.
The greatest disaster of self; comes not with experience of failure, but the fear gained belief; about what you think you cannot achieve
Having had a transcendental experience as a teenager with the assistance of a hallucinogen, Madeline remains certain that the universe is too vast and beautiful to bother with gods.
Preparing for your journey in the most thorough way possible will not diminish your experiences abroad. It will enhance them.
To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.
Through experience, he had learnt to pick up all of the unmistakable signs of vulnerability in a woman, everything that pointed to her being an easy prey.
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
People are naturally hardworking but will stop working hard at anything if they learn from experience that their effort makes no difference.
Children believe what you promise. They are excited and expectant. Your nature must be like theirs: bold, daring, unafraid and eager to experience the victory God has already assured.
Completing the circle is both philosophical and tactical - there is a growing sense of mastery that comes with practice, diligence, and experience.
Few experiences are more satisfying than becoming someone we always imagined we could be.
