Human Experience Quotes

• We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Life, Spiritual, Positive Thinking

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, 1955.

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• No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

  Paulo Freire

  Self, Experience, World

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Cheer Up, Reality

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• You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Spiritual, Humans, Human Beings

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• And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Change, Life Lesson

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 25, 2016

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• Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Honesty, Hate, Integrity

  Television broadcast, December 31, 1955.

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• There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

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• The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Helen Keller (1994). “Light in My Darkness”

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• Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were.

  Timothy Keller

  Wise, Heart, Suffering

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• Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

  Malcolm X

  Personality, Ingredients, Birth

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.159, Ballantine Books

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  People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Nothing appears to be something. The human experience is a senseory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets to see itself in form.

  Adyashanti

  Eye, Self, Awareness

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• The purpose of life is to know yourself, create yourself, experience yourself as Who You Really Are. There is no other reason to do anything.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Experience Yourself, Purpose

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Feb 13, 2017

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  Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

  Aesop

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wise

  Aesop, Thomas James (1872). “Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.36

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• Think of all your experiences as a huge tapestry that can be laid out in whatever pattern you wish. Each day you add a new thread to the weaving. Do you craft a curtain to hide behind, or do you fashion a magic carpet that will care you to unequaled heights?

  Tony Robbins

  Fashion, Thinking, Magic

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Oct 21, 2014

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• The worst loss you've ever experienced is the greatest gift you can have.

  Byron Katie

  Loss, Worst, Greatest Gifts

  Twitter post from Apr 26, 2011

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• Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Wisdom, Flames, Textbooks

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• We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

  Thomas Merton

  Uplifting, Men, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.106, New Directions Publishing

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• We all come into this world the same: naked, scared, and ignorant. After that grand entrance, the life we end up with is simply an accumulation of the choices we make.

  Darren Hardy

  Choices, Ignorant, Naked

  Darren Hardy (2011). “The Compound Effect”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don't have to stay that way.

  Joyce Meyer

  Change, Past, Self

  Twitter post from May 2, 2012

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• We learn...
  10% of what we read
  20% of what we hear
  30% of what we see
  50% of what we both hear and see
  70% of what is discussed
  80% of what we experience personally
  95% of what we teach to someone else

  William Glasser

  Inspirational, Education, Reading

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  Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

  Cornel West

  Hope, Courage, Compassion

  FaceBook post by Dr. Cornel West from Jun 16, 2010

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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, Experience

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• We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Witty, Learning

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