Human Experience Quotes - Page 5

• Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

  Jaron Lanier

  People, Progress, Way

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• People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience.

  Helen Mirren

  People, Parkinson's, Humans

  "Helen Mirren: 'it's time we all understood Parkinson's disease'" by Denis Campbell, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2010.

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• God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how to walk. He had fingers and toes, confusion, sexual feelings, crazy human internal processes. He had the same prejudices as the rest of his tribe: he had to learn that the Canaanite woman was a person. He had to suffer the hardships and tedium and setbacks of being a regular person. If he hadn't the incarnation would mean nothing.

  Anne Lamott

  Jesus, Crazy, Mistake

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.101, Penguin

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• Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech defect and trying to say love but unable to get the word out, or, better, having a tongue in one's head but unable to feel love.

  Jose Saramago

  Love, Communication, Practice

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• If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.

  Graham Greene

  Two, People, Together

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.

  John Steinbeck

  Pain, Two, People

  John Steinbeck (1993). “The Pearl”, p.86, Penguin

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• I am called to listen to the sound of my own heart -- to write the story within myself that demands to be told at that particular point in my life. And if I do this faithfully, clothing that idea in the flesh of human experience and setting it in a true place, the sound from my heart will resound in the reader's heart.

  Katherine Paterson

  Writing, Heart, Ideas

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• I think we're dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn't get all that much attention on television.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Thinking, Television, Attention

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Play, Risk, Safe

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• Religious traditions hold enormous value, extraordinary wisdom, breathtaking insights into the human experience, but they are limited to the degree that there has not been a new theological idea expressed by any of the major religions for thousands of years.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Religious, Years, Ideas

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Thinking, Giving, Shows

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• We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

  Erica Jong

  Spiritual, Order, Grows

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• What is dangerous about the far right is not that it takes religion seriously - most of us do - but rather that it condemns all other spiritual choices - the Buddhist, the Jew, the Muslim, and many others who consider themselves to be good Christians. The wall of separation between church and state is needed precisely because religion, like art, is too important a part of the human experience to be choked by the hands of censors.

  Barbra Streisand

  Christian, Spiritual, Art

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• All mysteries of human experience that are eliminated when we understand that we are a great deal more than our body and when you look very deeply at who and what the soul really is, who and what God really is.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Soul, Looks, Body

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The human experience of weakness is God's blueprint for calling attention to the supremacy of his Son. When miserably failing people continue to belong to, believe in, and worship Jesus, God is happy.

  Michael Spencer

  Jesus, Believe, Son

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• As a geologist, I love Earth observations, but it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a 'consensus' that humans are causing global warming when human experience, geologic data and history, and current cooling can argue otherwise. 'Consensus,' as many have said, merely represents the absence of definitive science. You know as well as I, the 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making.

  Harrison Schmitt

  Ties, Government, Data

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• As I have often written, power is the fundamental ingredient of the human experience. Every action in life, every thought, every choice we make-even down to what we wear and whether we are seating in first class or coach-represents a negotiation of power somewhere on the scale of power that constitutes life.

  Caroline Myss

  Life, Power, Class

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• No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions, pulverizing centuries-old practices in a matter of years, and standardizing the varieties of human experience.

  Michael Parenti

  Years, Practice, Culture

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• It is an understatement to say that the time has arrived for a serious and open international dialogue regarding the possibility of future interplanetary relations. In no other area of human experience has so much evidence existed for so long, and yet been attended by such a paucity of serious research and analysis - at least in the civilian domain. While the subject matter of UFOs itself is extraordinary, it is the absence of a serious human response to it that is most extraordinary.

  Steven M. Greer

  Long, Analysis, Research

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• As a full-time, and serious-minded, UFO investigator, I strongly side with the proponents. It seems indisputable that the phenomenon is real, and that it falls outside the scope of "normal" human experience.

  Peter Davenport

  Real, Fall, Sides

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• One of the ongoing themes in my work, I hope, and one of the things I believe in, is a sense of human nature, a sense of shared humanity above the cultural layers we place on ourselves [which don't] mean that much compared to the human experience.

  Chris Hondros

  Believe, Mean, Humanity

  Chris Hondros (2014). “Testament”, p.2, powerHouse Books

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• And this is why studying the history of psi is important.  People have been reporting these phenomena for millennia and studying them for centuries.  Human experiences that continue to be repeated throughout history and across cultures, are not due to ignorance or lack of critical thinking, and demand a serious explanation.

  Dean Radin

  Ignorance, Thinking, People

  Dean Radin (2009). “Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• I do have the ability to explore life and to be over the moon at the smallest thing - a few pints and a craic in the pub and I'm in heaven. But I have a melancholy side to me as well. Acting allows me to feel things, it kind of buys me human experience. And I don't mean this as acting as higher cause, because it's not, but it does kind of have a higher awareness emotionally.

  Colin Farrell

  Mean, Moon, Heaven

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

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• Age is as much an asset for character players as it is for good wine. Human experiences, both good and bad, leave their marks on one's face and bearing. A few lines on the face and a few gray hairs coupled with the idiosyncrasies an actor adopts throughout life help out round out the actor's personality. So far as I'm concerned, the older a character actor gets, the firmer his position is.

  Strother Martin

  Wine, Character, Player

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Marriage means handing over yourself, your body, your future, your keeping to the one whom you dearly love, although this person may, in many ways, remain a stranger. This tremendous act of faith is something that can unlock in each lover powers of compassion, generosity, joy, passion, fidelity and hope that no one guessed was even there. That is why the confidence of young lovers is not foolish or arrogant, but an expression of a basic fact in human experience that the greatest of human gifts are set to work only when people are prepared to risk everything and first you risk it before God.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Mean, Passion, Expression

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