Behinds Quote by Susan Cheever

“Meditation is the alchemist of the soul. It transforms disappointment into acceptance; betrayal into forgiveness; scarcity into abundance; loneliness into self acceptance; fear into…

— Darren Main

It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Often the lines that define the traditional European arrangement of fiction, non-fiction, history, etc. are not useful. These lines can distort the world we,…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.

— Karl Donitz

[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge of American…

— Sjon

The photographer Ruth Bernhard used to tell me that this is like asking somebody how they evolved their signature. It is not something I've…

— Michael Kenna

Each person comes to have this musical experience, this moment with us, where they get to sink into our world for a little while.…

— Gillian Welch

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

— Miranda Lambert

All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone. There is…

— Havelock Ellis

Sometimes I write from personal experience, but so much depends on what mood I'm in. If I'm in a good mood, I'll write happier…

— Orianthi

Usually the way I think someone is radicalized is through a personal experience. The thing about environmental activism is that we are all having…

— Peter Sarsgaard

No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet…

— Thomas Sowell