Our Experience Quotes
182 quotes by 153 authors
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
— William Ellery Channing
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Refugee problems may often seem intractable but they are not insoluble. In our experience there are two basic prerequisites for solution: the political will of…
— Sadako Ogata
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The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of…
— Pema Chodron
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Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly…
— Vaclav Havel
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We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward…
— Andrew Weil
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Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His…
— Thomas Jefferson
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How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many…
— Henry David Thoreau
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We need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and effects, and that…
— David Hume
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Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.
— Dalai Lama
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Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience, we begin to…
— Mark Nepo
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The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd our…
— Arthur David Ritchie
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And I can see that everything about this God has been purposely designed to poison our experience of life on earth, not to enhance it,…
— Pat Condell
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As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights... That all significant perfect moment,…
— Margaret Bourke-White
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If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for…
— C.S. Lewis
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Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of…
— Wallace Pratt
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I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I…
— Shaun Cassidy
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We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.
— Bashar al-Assad
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