Experiences Quotes
2229 quotes by 1535 authors
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We learn of great things by little experiences.
— Bram Stoker
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For you must know, gentlemen, that when the mariner is dosed, he likes to know that he has been dosed: with fifteen grains or even…
— Patrick O'Brian
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If your boundary training consists only of words, you are wasting your breath. But if you 'do' boundaries with your kids, they internalize the experiences,…
— Henry Cloud
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... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate…
— Audre Lorde
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There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my…
— Hermann Hesse
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Lots of kids in books are only-child orphans, but I think it’s fun to have family as part of the adventure, to have familial love…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would…
— Sarah Dessen
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There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent.…
— Jodi Picoult
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The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference…
— Augusten Burroughs
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Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable…
— Tao Lin
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The…
— E. M. Forster
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Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though…
— Bertrand Russell
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Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time,…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will…
— Tom Wolfe
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The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions ……
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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You will have significant experiences. I hope that you will write them down and keep record of them, that you will read them from time…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things - new experiences, new emotions - and…
— John Banville
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What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment,…
— David Rakoff
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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of…
— Oscar Wilde
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