Daily Experience Quotes

• Happiness is separate from daily experience. If picking the right door on the game show makes you happy, then you will be unhappy in the future because eventually you will pick a wrong door.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Doors

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• Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.

  Napoleon Hill

  Persistence, Mind, Enemy

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Think & Grow Rich”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• The spiritual path can only be traveled through the daily experience of love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Path, Traveled

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Fear, Expression

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.190, Graphic Arts Books

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• I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Life, Country, Determination

  Vita Sackville-West (2015). “Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings”, Macmillan

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• This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has seen one in a test tube, or has in any way come into a relationship with it as he has with the other objects of his daily experience.

  John B. Watson

  Psychology, Soul, Religion

  John B. Watson (2017). “Behaviorism”, p.21, Routledge

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• The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.

  William Howard Taft

  Character, Personality, Masonic

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  Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."

  Bill Russell

  Education, Believe, Learning

  Bill Russell, David Falkner (2001). “Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner”, p.70, Penguin

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• Lord Jesus, cause me to know in my daily experience the glory and sweetness of Thy name, and then teach me how to use it in my prayer, so that I may be a prince prevailing with God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Prayer, Names

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1883). “Illustrations and Meditations: Or, Flowers from a Puritan's Garden”

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• The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Past

  Interview with Mark Hagen, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2009.

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• My films have always had an element of immediate autobiography, in that I shoot any particular scene according to the mood I'm in that day, according to the little daily experiences I've had and am having - but I don't tell what has happened to me. I would like to do something more strictly autobiographical, but perhaps I never will, because it isn't interesting enough.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Interesting, Elements, Littles

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Change, Motivation

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.520, Simon and Schuster

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• A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

  George Santayana

  Small Changes, Hype, Currency

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.110, 谷月社

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• It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that, under certain circumstances, they may be dispensed with without disadvantage to the merely animal functions, but it is an error, certainly, to conclude from this that they may be altogether dispensed with in reference to their effects; and It is a question whether, if we had no tea and no coffee, the popular instinct would not seek for and discover the means of replacing them.

  Isabella Beeton

  Coffee, Mean, Animal

  Isabella Beeton (2006). “Mrs Beeton's Household Management”, p.825, Wordsworth Editions

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• Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a conscious recording of the day’s experiences ‘freshly and with the appearance of reality’… The writer of imagination would find himself released from observing things for the purpose of writing them down later. He would be there to enjoy, to taste, to engage the free world, not a world which he carries like a bag of food, always fearful lest he drop something or someone get more than he.

  William Carlos Williams

  Writing, Reality, Imagination

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• The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

  Denis Waitley

  Love, Life, Essence

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• Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Glowing, Experience, Audience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.77, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent.

  Stephen Levine

  Spiritual, Grief, Loss

  Stephen Levine (2005). “Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart”, p.3, Rodale

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• The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since the statistician can seldom or never make experiments for himself, he has to accept the data of daily experience, and discuss as best he can the relations of a whole group of changes; he cannot, like the physicist, narrow down the issue to the effect of one variation at a time. The problems of statistics are in this sense far more complex than the problems of physics.

  Udny Yule

  Science, Opportunity, Data

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• Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.

  Bob Keeshan

  Children, Real, Dinner

  "Bob Keeshan, Creator and Star of TV's 'Captain Kangaroo,' Is Dead at 76" by Richard Severo, www.nytimes.com. January 24, 2004.

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• Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Differences, Said, Shows

  Vita Sackville-West (2015). “Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings”, Macmillan

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• Love is qualified as an attribute of that force, power or influence known as God. Thus as man makes application of love in his daily experience, he finds God a personal God.

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Love Is, Men

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• One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Things In Life

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• The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicized so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy. A lot of fiction comes out of a child's feeling of, "Hey, that's not fair."

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Children, Writing, Feelings

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• In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

  Christopher Lasch

  Drug, Needs, Want

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