Groups Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri

The words that we attach to our experience become our experience.

— Tony Robbins

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

— Anonymous

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I…

— Plutarch

For the way in which the word is experienced is always momentous

— Walter J. Ong

Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to me in…

— Bell Hooks

Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.

— Sergei Lukyanenko

Passion. That's it. When you believe in what you're doing, that's it.

— Dov Charney

Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.

— Henry David Thoreau

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual…

— William James

“I want to know what passion is,' he said. 'I want to feel something strongly. We are all grown-up intellectually and during working hours,'…

— Aldous Huxley

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.

— Susan Sontag

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

— Oprah Winfrey