It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
As I came into myself as a young Black woman, I realized there's a whole type of person and human experience that… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
“The question is: Why have these poems and prayers endured? Why, thousands of years later, do we still have them? And the… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“It’s the nature of human experience, which is always in some form of motion, to veer off course—sometimes in major, but consistently… — David Allen Copy Share Image
Keep reiterating, again and again, that depression is not something you 'admit to.' It is not something you have to blush about;… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the… — Edwin S. Shneidman Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is painful. But suffering is not wrong in and of itself. It's part of the human experience, and in a way… — Juliette Fay Copy Share Image
There are many stages of grief. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way -- cracks… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
If we try to hold on to our partial glimpses of the divine, we cut it down to our own size and… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“My experience showed me that the death of the body and the brain are not the end of consciousness, that human experience… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious and aware of… — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
Age is as much an asset for character players as it is for good wine. Human experiences, both good and bad, leave… — Strother Martin Copy Share Image
We need new art. Old art cannot do that. It can do lots of other things, and of course humanity hasn't changed… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“We’re all, for the most part, pretty average people. But it’s the extremes that get all of the publicity. We kind of… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“After some years of muddled thinking on the subject, he suddenly saw quite clearly what it was he had been running away… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“All day, every day, we are flooded with the truly extraordinary. The best of the best. The worst of the worst. The… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“What did I learn and internalize from the experience? That our challenge is to let go of our old stories that defined… — Colette Baron Reid Copy Share Image
“i give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciating-ly apt that you will use it to gain the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“I think people expect too much from marriage today,' he said. 'They expect perfection. Every moment should be bliss. That's TV or… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
There are nature and nurture components to virtually every behavior a human experiences. The research effort lies only in finding the relevant… — John Medina Copy Share Image
Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Focusing on positivity alone doesn't leave much room for the full range of emotions that enrich the human experience (and make having… — Laura Pitcher Copy Share Image
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
“Squeeze this amazing human experience for all its nourishing juices. Take action towards the life you see for yourself. Don’t just look… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
I do actually believe in love. I can't say that I'm 100 percent successful in that department, but I think it's one… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ...… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
He who is only a traveler learns things at second-handand by the halves, and is poorauthority. We are most interested when science… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image