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Experience Quotes
"The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have."
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"The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience."
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"Good! he wanted to cry out to her. Good! Because you only had to see it! I had to wear it!"
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Experience everything but cling to what is right."
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"With action experience grows, with travel outlooks grow, and with reflections wisdom grows."
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"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."
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"This is a bitter adventure, if it must end so; and not a mountain of gold can amend it. Yet I am glad that I have shared in your perils -- that has been more than any baggins deserves."
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"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."
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"Fear hadn't come to him yet. Pain hadn't come where pain would come. There was only the feeling of having done something perfect at last-the taste of a drink from a cold, pure spring."
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"If you say that you have accepted defeat, the world will let you go. 'We' have discovered this. Because, we had tried to win over the world and in doing so, we had to go through many incarnations. And in the end, I said that I have acknowledged defeat and settled down."
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"There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire whether the way is smooth and easy or rugged and difficult. Is life harder toward the end, or what report do you give it?"
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"My experience of chaotic lessons has humbled me enough to know, I could have it worse than I do I now and positive enough to know I can be where I want to be, someday."
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"I never once thought I wanted to be a soldier. I wanted to be a teacher. As soon as I left college, though, they sent me my draft notice, stuck me in officers training, and I ended up on the continent for twelve years. My life went by like a dream."
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"Looking back at the years I spent in the asylums, I'm now convinced some of that insanity rubbed off onto me!"
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"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."
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"My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun."
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"Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known."
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"There are some days we can claim and there are other days that claim us."
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"War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men."
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"Pathology can indeed evoke experiences of Absolute Godliness, but not all God experiences are caused by pathology. They can also occur due to disturbance in the geomagnetic field of our planet, consumption of psychedelics, excruciatingly extreme level of stress during a near- death situation, or ultimately through a natural and healthy procedure of meditation or/and prayer."
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"It is not how long the music last but how much we enjoy."
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"Experience is not a means to realize the truth. Experience is the truth."
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"Direct experience is the only way."
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"It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true."
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"I've been an inmate in Broadmoor, Rampton and Ashworth. I was one of 'them'. I was once Britain's most unstable madman! This book is a complete one off! If you're a nervous type of reader then don't read it. You've been warned! You are now entering the world of insanity; please keep hold of your sanity until the book comes to a stop!"
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"Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world's unfathomable variety."
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"There is neither mistake nor failures. It is only experience."
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"When he finished, he drank from the cup. Everyone else did too, so I followed suit.And nearly choked to death.It was like fire in liquid form. It took every ounce of strength I had to swallow it and not spray it on those around me."Wh...what is this?" I asked, coughing.Viktoria grinned. "Vodka."I peered at the glass. "No, it isn't. I've had vodka before.""Not Russian vodka."Apparently not."
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"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."
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"Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job."
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"We are strengthening by different experiences in life;Sad times, happy moments. Poverty, riches. Failure, success. Troubles, good times. Losing, winning."
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"Most journeys are armchair calculations strategically charted in some reclined state that are designed to allow us to embark upon a grand journey without ever leaving the armchair. However, real journeys are absent of furniture."
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"Enjoy the music to understand it!"
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"Failure is only an experience. We learn from trials and errors."
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"There is a huge difference between learning about truth and experiencing truth. Touch the source."
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"Experience, derived from scientific investigation, led to all the scientific literature in history. Likewise, experience, derived from religious transcendence, led to all the religious scriptures in history. It's never the other way around."
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"Experience is something you have to go through to tell it details."
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"Sex is a different medium, refracting time and sense, a biological hyperspace as remote from conscious existence as dreams, or as water is from air."
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"Mistakes Are Life's Lectures You Didn't Plan To Attend But Situations Or People Made You Attend Them....Pay Attention And Learn From Them."
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"You, the unhappy young! Try to take a leaf out of the old happy's book!"
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"Passing pleasures, like passing clouds, are all we have."
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"One who has been stung by a spider should not go out and kill bees."
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"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."
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"A life without having loved someone is a life never lived."
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