“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
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
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
“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
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
Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that you’ve either witnessed or have heard about, translated into your… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the… — G. B. Caird Copy Share Image
“To write or read a poem is . . . to enter into a different kind of thought world from our normal… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Usually we regard as meaningful that which can be expressed, and as meaningless that which cannot be expressed. Yet, the equation of… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“Great revelations of nature, of course, never fail to impress in one way or another, and I was no stranger to moods… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“Through creativity, we are seamlessly connected and sustained as we pull back the veil, revealing beneath our differences and distinctive characteristics, human… — Brian Bowers Copy Share Image
“You see that bottle?” I told him I had wondered about it when we came into his office. “Well, how many people… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
“Social theorists may be considered as belonging to the Zuni-like culture of scholars. Such cultures select persons who have repressed their emotions… — Thomas J. Scheff Copy Share Image
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
If you knew me in the past, please do not think that I am the same person that you are meeting today.… — John Powell Copy Share Image
metaphors for God drawn from human experience can easily be literalized. While we are immediately aware that the personal God is not… — Sandra Marie Schneiders Copy Share Image
...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
Some Iraqi writers are more daring today and have excellent imaginations and their material is rich in human experience. But the Arab… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Literature is integrated, and I'm not just talking about color or race. I'm talking about the power of literature to make us… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is to know yourself, create yourself, experience yourself as Who You Really Are. There is no other reason… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“You are a Spirit, living in a body, who has a mind. You are a spiritual being having a human experience, not… — Steve D'Annunzio Copy Share Image
We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“One of the strengths of the belief in Antinous was its appeal to the most sensitive and inward of mystical natures as… — Royston Lambert Copy Share Image
“Sorrow is an inseparable dimension of our human experience. We suffer after a loss because we are human. And in our suffering,… — Alan D. Wolfelt Copy Share Image
You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“I think horror, when done well, is one of the most direct and honest ways to get to the core of the… — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
“Your purpose on earth is to participate in this human experience and to seize the opportunity within each day to reveal the… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Our brains are so conditioned through education, through religion, to think we are separate entities with separate souls and so on. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Doing a space walk. It is one of the most rare human experiences. To leave your spaceship and go outside, so that… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
I needed to let go of the idea of a God who was mad at me for feeling how I was feeling.… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
I don't want to pick a team. I want to make people laugh and hopefully bring some - be humorous about the… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
There is such a reluctance to address sex as an inherent part of the human experience in this country... The true perversion… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
