Experience Quotes - Page 23

• Everything you have done and been through is valuable and important. In order to be who you are, to know what you know, to be where you are in this moment, you needed to go through what you went through.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Knowledge, Past, Order

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Feb 05, 2014

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  I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Life, Self Esteem, Women

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• I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

  Jim Morrison

  Thinking, Important, Lowest Point

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• A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Character, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• The scariest moment is always just before you start.

  Stephen King

  Travel, Writing, Worst Moments

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• All experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moving, Forever, Arches

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• Experience alone can decide on truth.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Lying, Science

  Albert Einstein (1954). “Ideas and Opinions: Based on Mein Weltbild”

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• The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

  Eric Hoffer

  Wise, Long, Creative

  Eric Hoffer (1979). “Before the Sabbath”, Harpercollins

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• To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

  Eric Hoffer

  Creative, Events, Individual

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Thinking, Ideas, Truth Is

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• The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Imagination, Tragedy, World

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Pain, Struggle, Suffering

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• Letting yourself simply experience your difficulties without getting caught up in thoughts about how much you dislike them and in wishes that you didn't have to deal with them in the first place will change your experience of difficulties.

  John Daishin Buksbazen

  Change, Wish, Firsts

  John Daishin Buksbazen (2010). “Zen Meditation in Plain English”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.

  David Hume

  Past, Principles, Events

  David Hume, Eric Steinberg (1993). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.29, Hackett Publishing

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• Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.

  Menander

  Happened

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• Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Painting, Easy

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• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings.

  Pittacus Lore

  Memories, Sadness, Sorrow

  Pittacus Lore (2010). “I Am Number Four: (Lorien Legacies Book 1)”, p.250, Penguin UK

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• No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Learning, Apprenticeship

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• What is most necessary for people and what is given us in great abundance, are experiences, especially experiences of the forces within us. This is our most essential food, our most essential wealth. If we consciously receive all this abundance, the universe will pour into us what is called life in Judaism, spirit in Christianity, light in Islam, power in Taoism.

  Jacob Needleman

  Light, People, Taoism

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• A lot of people talk about life. Some love it. Some disparage it. And a few realize that life can be what you make it because they have learned from past experiences. Lessons learned from these experiences have often contributed greatly toward seeing the possibilities in what some people call "the game of life." When we've "been there" and "done that," we can have as good of an idea of what we don't want as what we do want. Experience is certainly an excellent teacher!

  John Templeton

  Teacher, Past, Games

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• What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Numbers, Trying

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

  William James

  Boiling Over, Way, Formulas

  William James (2008). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking”, p.98, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.

  William James

  Order, Mind, Shapes

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.402, Courier Corporation

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• What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Gold, Littles, Ruins

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