I believe our lives are important when we learn something…

You truly do reap what you sow, so that makes it so important for us to learn to love each other in the here…

— Suzanne Giesemann

“Unaccustomed to direct experience, we can come to fear it. We don't want to read a book or see a museum show until we've…

— Michael Crichton

“I want to understand the world from your point of view. I want to know what you know in the way you know it.…

— James P. Spradley

The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically the preceding…

— Marshall McLuhan

“Some situations can never be explained. You will only receive the true meaning of them through experience.”

— Anonymous

Now that I have all the things I once thought would make me happy, they have little meaning for me. Experience, and not just…

— Oprah Winfrey

Mass market desire is about meaning and experience.

— Sohrab Vossoughi

Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit…

— Peter L. Berger

“Meditation is not really something that you define. It is something that you practice on a regular basis, and the only way to discover…

— Sarah Rowland

Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.

— Donald Miller

It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

— David Foster Wallace

“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.”

— Flannery O'Connor

I've always been interested in how other people live their lives, which is why it's important to engage fully even in painful times. And…

— Pamela Adlon

For many young people growing up in minority communities, there is a sense that their lives are disposable. As athletes, we have a platform…

— Jason Collins

I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.

— Claire Messud