Life Experience Quotes - Page 6

• We just had a near-life experience!

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Memorable, Parent

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.175, Princeton University Press

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• We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

  John Keats

  Book, Experience, Gone

  Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 3 May 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 279

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• Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.

  Scott Lynch

  Years, Play, Giving

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.414, Del Rey

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• The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings.

  Pittacus Lore

  Memories, Sadness, Sorrow

  Pittacus Lore (2010). “I Am Number Four: (Lorien Legacies Book 1)”, p.250, Penguin UK

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• But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take Alaska's genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her. There is something else entirely. There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed

  John Green

  Real, Believe, Alaska

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

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• Life experience. I can talk it up, vow to broaden my horizons, but I’m still limited to the experiences with my life. How can a person understand an experience that lies completely outside her own? She can see it, feel it, imagine what it would be like to live it, but it’s no different from seeing a movie on a screen and saying, “Thank God that’s not me”.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Lying, Thank God, Different

  Kelley Armstrong (2008). “The Summoning: Number 1 in series”, p.219, Hachette UK

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• For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.

  John Keats

  Philosophy, Experience, Pulse

  Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 3 May 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 279

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• I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?

  Jennifer Egan

  Real, Caring, Experience

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.44, Anchor

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• Teaching, therefore, asks first of all the creation of a space where students and teachers can enter into a fearless communication with each other and allow their respective life experiences to be their primary and most valuable source of growth and maturation. It asks for a mutual trust in which those who teach and those who want to learn can become present to each other, not as opponents, but as those who share in the same struggle and search for the same truth.

  Henri Nouwen

  Teacher, Communication, Teaching

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• Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

  Jonathan Kellerman

  Optimism, Denial, Pessimism

  Jonathan Kellerman (2007). “Obsession: An Alex Delaware Novel”, p.43, Ballantine Books

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• If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.

  Nikolas Schreck

  Hands, Left Hand, Path

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• If you’re the type of person who wants to associate exclusively with those who perfectly mirror your own ethical worldview, you’re reducing significantly the scope of your potential life experience.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Mirrors, Want, Ethical

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• You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output - how much you produce - not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Mean, Caring, Unique

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• One and all
  We lend an ear-nay, Science takes thereto-
  Encourages the meanest who has racked
  Nature until he gains from her some fact,
  To state what truth is from his point of view,
  Mere pin-point though it be: since many such
  Conduce to make a whole, she bids our friend
  Come forward unabashed and haply lend
  His little life-experience to our much
  Of modern knowledge.

  Robert Browning

  Knowledge, Science, Views

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.334, Wildside Press LLC

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• View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn't

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Happiness, Spiritual, Views

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• I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question, From how deep and true an impulse did it spring? Was it written merely to shock? Only to make money? Or was it written to create something more perfect and more lasting than the life experience from which it came?

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Spring, Book, Writing

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• The master and the student on the journey to mastery, knows that the illusions are the illusions, decides why they are there, and then consciously creates what will be experienced next within the self through the illusions. When facing any life experience, there is a formula, a process, through which you may choose to move through mastery. Simply make the following statements: One, nothing in my world is real. Two, The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it. Three, I am who I say I am, and my experience is what I say it is. This is how to work with the illusions of life.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Real, Moving

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• I have a lot of real life experience with hustling and doing stupid stuff.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Real, Stupid, Hustle

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. May 29, 2003.

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• The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.

  Howie Mandel

  Comedy

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• Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

  Kate Bosworth

  Jobs, Acting, Fame

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• We need to continually look within ourselves. Contemplate our inner being and find our own unique voice and then learn to heed it and we will then have the life experience we deserve.

  Dirk Benedict

  Education, Unique, Voice

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• I feel very fortunate, I've been exposed to a lot of different cultures. If I wasn't from a multi-ethnic background, I wouldn't have had these great experiences. And one of the things that makes me a good actor is life experience.

  Navi Rawat

  Different, Culture, Actors

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• My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Art, Philosophy

  Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothy Norman (1976). “Alfred Stieglitz”

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• Sound comes out of a life experience.

  Bill Laswell

  Sound

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