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• The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

  Angela Carter

  Clever, Experience, Literature

  Angela Carter (2015). “The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

  Alice James

  Women, Memorable, Doctors

  1890 Diary entry, 27 Sep.

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• You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

  Joseph Campbell

  Real, Compassion, Humanity

  Joseph Campbell (1991). “The Hero's Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell : Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, Harper San Francisco

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• Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

  Tavares Strachan

  Confusing, Way, Make Sense

  "Tavares Strachan's Desert Explosion". Interview with Matt Mullen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 1, 2017.

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• It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences.

  Ian Tattersall

  Law, Unintended Consequences, Ironclads

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• We all must do what Christ did. We must make our experiment. We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life. And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not live.

  Carl Jung

  Mistake, Errors, Christ

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• Who you really are is Non-Physical Energy focused in a physical body, knowing full well that all is well and always has been, and always will be. You are here to experience the supreme pleasure of concluding new desires, and then of bringing yourself into vibrational alignment with the new desires that you've concluded, for the purpose of taking thought beyond that which it has been before.

  Esther Hicks

  Spiritual, Law Of Attraction, Knowing

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• The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.

  Simon Sinek

  Inspirational, Truth, Honesty

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Mar 22, 2016

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• To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know how to be dead.

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Able, Accepting

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• The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Joy, Sorrow, Triumph

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• The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of these experiences in the vast terrain of our existence. It is part of what makes life grand-and it is also why our minds take us on such a crazy ride. If we can train ourselves through meditation to be more open and more accepting toward the wild arc of our experience, if we can lean into the difficulties of life and the ride of our minds, we can become more settled and relaxed amid whatever life brings us.

  Pema Chodron

  Crazy, Meditation, Joy

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• My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired material, moral or intellectual excellence, honest labor faithfully, steadily and persistently pursued, is the best, if not the only, explanation of their success... All human experience proves over and over again, that any success which comes through meanness, trickery, fraud and dishonour, is but emptiness and will only be a torment to its possessor.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Self, Intellectual

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.344, Hackett Publishing

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• All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moving On, Experience, World

  'Ulysses' (1842) l. 6

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• Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

  Aisha Tyler

  Wounds And Scars, Tough, Turns

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• True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Thank You, Forgiveness, Thankful

  "Is It Too Late Now To Say Sorry? The Power of Forgiveness" by Margaret Hession, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2017.

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• ... negative feelings are not true feelings at all; rather, they are your thoughts about something, based always on the previous experience of yourself and others. You will not find Truth in your past data, only past data that is based on other past data that is based on other past data, and so forth. Forget your "past experience" and look directly at the experience you are having. Right Here, Right Now. There is your Truth.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Truth, Past, Data

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Sep 22, 2014

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• Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

  Bill Johnson

  Personal Experiences, Concepts

  Bill Johnson (2010). “When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles”, p.87, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In life, friendships change, divorces happen, people move on, others die. Money and jobs will come and go. Live long enough and your health and body will change. It goes with the territory of being human. The fact that you are still here gives you an advantage. Don't look back. Look straight ahead!! Decide to use all of your knowledge, skills, experiences and your life lessons from your mistakes, defeats and setbacks, to start over again. Life changes. You may not have the same life as before, but you can still enjoy your life!

  Les Brown

  Jobs, Mistake, Life Changing

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• It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Friendship, Stress, Sorrow

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• Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Loneliness, Being Single, Single Life

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.67, A&C Black

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• If the individual could succeed in discovering through human experience the profound past, he, would more rapidly, reach the conclusion that all the opportunities that complement him in knowledge and health, come from Divine Kindness and, that most of the material resources that are at his disposition and desires proceed from injustice.

  Chico Xavier

  Kindness, Past, Opportunity

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• Art is about the dynamics of the human experience.

  Danny Glover

  Art, Dynamics, Humans

  Source: progressive.org

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• Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.

  Caroline Myss

  Attitude, Power, Roots

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• Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes.

  Lance Secretan

  Future Leaders, Great Leadership, Process

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• Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits.

  Edwin S. Shneidman

  Memories, Grief, Loss

  Edwin S. Shneidman (1995). “Voices of Death”, Kodansha Globe

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