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Ester asked why people are sad. "Thatâ€™s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main… — Paulo Coelho
Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living… — Henry Miller
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's… — William James
Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse… — Malcolm X
Children donâ€™t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew. — Albert Einstein
Apparently, before we are born, each of us experiences a vision of what our life can be, complete with reflections on our parents and our… — James Redfield
Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives,… — Corrie Ten Boom
That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I… — Alice Walker
She should have remembered her past experiences in the relationship wars and not let herself get so excited. Evidently her hormones had overruled her common… — Linda Howard
I am fundamentally happy. Everyone has experiences that makes them cynical, jaded or unhappy - you just have to fight those things off. I have… — Drew Barrymore
I celebrate myself," the poet Walt Whitman wrote. The thought is so delicious it is almost obscene. Imagine the joy that would come with celebrating… — Joan D. Chittister
Truth is, I think naked men are kind of strange looking what with their doodles and ding-dong hanging loose like they do. Nevertheless, there's the… — Janet Evanovich
If she were religious, she would call it the soul. It is more than the sum of her intellect and her emotions, more than the… — Michael Cunningham
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brotherâ€™s experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he… — Frank Herbert
Each of us is here to discover our true selves; that essentially we are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form; that we're… — Deepak Chopra
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is… — Richard Dawkins

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