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Experience Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
- I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I loose it…
- The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to…
- According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all chose to be…
- When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it,…
- God is an experience of supreme love.
- Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.
- But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually…
- Because I know something that you don't know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life, but I also know that someday…
- If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.
- Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the…
- Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.
More Experience Quotes
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- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs. — Bashar al-Assad
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila