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• Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love - I think that's the meaning of this human experience.

  Steve Gleason

  Love, Life, Meaningful

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• I want people to be more open and tolerant. I want them to know that behind every stranger is a backstory that is the common denominator - for we all share in the human experience: pain, sadness, grief, lack of love, and then, with hope and help, step by step achievements.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Pain, Grief, Sadness

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• All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the name raises questions about man's ultimate destiny and the meaning of all history to which, as history, he can provide no answers. The answers belong to the realm of theology.

  G. B. Caird

  Destiny, Men, Names

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• Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.

  Starhawk

  Uplifting, Women, Reality

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more than a spectator sport. Everything must have a cause, and a name. Every random thought must have a root in something else.

  Derek Landy

  Sports, Talking, Names

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• Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Two, Negative, Isolation

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• We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything else is an illusion.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Positive Thinking, Love Is

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• Each of us is here to discover our true selves; that essentially we are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form; that we're not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences, that we're spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Taken, Self

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• When we desire to be a blessing, we find that there are many ways in which we can bless others. We can give material goods to others, and we can also offer them the benefit of our experience. People who have faced and overcome challenges with alcohol and drugs often involve themselves in helping others who are experiencing similar difficulties. They understand the value of overcoming the problem. In every area of the human experience, we may find those precious ones who are able and willing to be a blessing to others.

  John Templeton

  Blessing, Helping Others, People

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• Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do others, the rest of the 6.8 billion–and those who will follow them.  And then you too will discover the great and curious truth of the human experience is that selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself.  The sweetest joys of life, then, come only with the recognition that you’re not special. Because everyone is.

  David McCullough

  Independent, Exercise, Creative

  "Commencement speaker blasts students". www.washingtonpost.com. June 8, 2012.

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• There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.

  Allan McLeod Cormack

  Unity, These Days, Specialization

  Allan McLeod Cormack's Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1979.

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• It seems to me that one of the most basic human experiences, one that is genuinely universal and unites-or, more precisely, could unite-all of humanity, is the experience of transcendence in the broadest sense of the word.

  Vaclav Havel

  Humanity, Transcendence, Humans

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• I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the human experience cannot escape the political.

  Walter Mosley

  Believe, Thinking, Political

  Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

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• All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.

  William Saroyan

  Dirty, People, Comedian

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• Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.

  Jacques Ellul

  Philosophy, History, Humans

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  Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

  John Keats

  Positive, Happiness, Real

  Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 19 March 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 81

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Every time I see the bumper sticker that says “We think we’re humans having spiritual experiences, but we’re really spirits having human experiences,” I (a) think it’s true and (b) want to ram the car.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Thinking, Car

  Anne Lamott (2014). “Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace”, p.74, Penguin

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• Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Wine, Water, Use

  Eugene H. Peterson (1997). “Leap over a wall: earthy spirituality for everyday Christians”

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• Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?

  James Agee

  Writing, Artist, Facts

  James Agee (2005). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: A Death in the Family, & Shorter Fiction”

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• If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.

  P. D. James

  Sex, World, Firsts

  FaceBook post by P.D. James from Apr 30, 2013

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• Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Running, Men

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• Jazz is really about the human experience. It’s about the ability of human beings to take the worst of circumstances and struggles and turn it into something creative and constructive. That’s something that’s built into the fiber of every human being. And I think that’s why people can respond to it. They feel the freedom in it. And the attributes of jazz are also admirable. It’s about dialogue. It’s about sharing. And teamwork. It’s in the moment, and it's nonjudgmental.

  Herbie Hancock

  Teamwork, Struggle, Thinking

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• Above all, don't lie to yourself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Respect, Lying, Occupy Yourself

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.96, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Life, Respect

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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