Human Experience Quotes - Page 14

• The goal of the human experience is to transform ourselves from being who long to attain power in the physical world to beings who are empowered from within.

  Caroline Myss

  Long, Goal, World

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Invisible Acts of Power: The Divine Energy of a Giving Heart”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• It is important to distinguish between sense-pleasure and sense-desire. There is nothing wrong with sense-pleasure. Pleasure and pain are part of our human experience. Sense-desire, on the other hand, is the grasping at pleasure or the avoidance of pain. This is what creates suffering-grasping and avoidance.

  Dipa Ma

  Pain, Hands, Suffering

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• As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something to people. You search for those projects and you hope to realize the potential in a project.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Mean, People, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Darkness, Degrees

  Stephen King (2009). “Stephen King Goes to the Movies”, p.519, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.

  Maureen Johnson

  People, Way, Normal

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• It’s the same reason I don’t get Hooters. Why do we need to enjoy chicken wings and boobies at the same time? Yes, they are a natural and beautiful part of the human experience. And so are boobies. But why at the same time?

  Tina Fey

  Beautiful, Wings, Needs

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• It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me...if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, Sometimes, Pleasure

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Acceptance, Emotional

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• It is not how much you know about life but how you live your life that counts. Those who can avoid mistakes by observing the mistakes of others are most apt to keep free from sorrow. In a world full of uncertainties, the record of what has gone before-human experience-is as sure and reliable as anything of which we know.

  Ray Lyman Wilbur

  Life, Mistake, Sorrow

  Ray Lyman Wilbur (1940). “Human Hopes: Addresses & Papers on Education, Citizenship, & Social Porblems”

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• The laws expressing the relations between energy and matter are, however, not solely of importance in pure science. They necessarily come first in order ... in the whole record of human experience, and they control, in the last resort, the rise or fall of political systems, the freedom or bondage of nations, the movements of commerce and industry, the origin of wealth and poverty, and the general physical welfare of the race.

  Frederick Soddy

  Freedom, Fall, Science

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• But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

  Chaim Potok

  Travel, Reading, Media

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• But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology. Moreover, they must be men of action and not contemplation. I have the impression that no method of education can produce people with all the qualities required. I am haunted by the idea that this break in human civilization, caused by the discovery of the scientific method, may be irreparable.

  Max Born

  Education, Science, Technology

  "My Life & My Views". Book by Max Born, 1968.

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• There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Liberty, Purpose

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.260, Courier Corporation

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• The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.

  Herbert Hoover

  Bible, Godly, Presidential

  "The State Papers and Other Public Writings of Herbert Hoover".

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• The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall rest, not upon tradition or external authority or historical evidence, but upon the ascertainable facts of human experience. The craving for immediacy, which we have seen to be characteristic of all mysticism, now takes the form of a desire to establish the validity of the God-consciousness as a normal part of the healthy inner life.

  William Ralph Inge

  Religious, Men, Numbers

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• For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of a compelling impulse I cannot deny. Whether working with a human figure or a still life, I am deeply aware of my spiritual connection with it. In my life, as in my work, I am motivated by a great yearning for balance and harmony beyond the realm of human experience, reaching for the essence of oneness with the Universe.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Spiritual, Photography, Emotional

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• Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.

  Deniz Gamze Erguven

  Actors, Scripts, Humans

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things.

  Story Musgrave

  Space, People, Events

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.

  Rainn Wilson

  Mean, Thinking, Awkward

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• As the young spend less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically and this reduces the richness of human experience we need contact with nature.

  Richard Louv

  Needs, Natural, Surroundings

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• PERENNIAL wisdom from divine revelation and human experience dictates that all earthly things great or small, beautiful or ugly, good or bad, sad or happy, fool...ish or wise must finally come to an end. It is from this sobering reality that the end of executive rule has finally come for Robert Mugabe who has had his better days after a quarter of a century in power.

  Jonathan Moyo

  Beautiful, Wise, Reality

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• Sak, pain, love are limited human experiences. and only those who know their own frontiers, those knows the life, the rest is just passing time.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pain, Sad Life, Passing

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• I don't want to pick a team. I want to make people laugh and hopefully bring some - be humorous about the human experience, you know, whether they're people of any stripes of life.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Team, Humorous, Laughing

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• I would feel pretty embarrassed if I was doing what I do and I wasn't at least attempting the eloquent translation of the human experience in some way.

  El-P

  Way, Attempting, Embarrassed

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience.

  Lewis Mumford

  Data, Experience, Energy

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