Experience Quotes

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To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices such as fasting… — John Ortberg
Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully we become aware… — Henri Nouwen
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear. — Joan Rivers
Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first… — Carl Jung
It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. — Renata Adler
Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It is these that… — Maria Montessori
Compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is. It is something that only we human beings can develop. And if we have a good… — Dalai Lama
My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe… — Muhammad Yunus
I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came to this conclusion… — Muhammad Yunus
Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that… — Susan Sontag
Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour… — John Burroughs
I just don't think of age and time in respect of years. I have too much experience of people in their seventies who are vigorous… — Harrison Ford
Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures… — Anne Lamott
Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens to… — Katherine Anne Porter
With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the… — Anna Quindlen
But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise. — Alexander Pope
Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to think that every… — George Johnson
If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and… — Deepak Chopra
Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others. — Walter Lippmann
Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception… — George Santayana

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