- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience Quotes
What years and habits teach you.
This collection uses "experience" to cover both comfort and unease — from finding solace in familiar music, to noticing how wealth and poverty can sit side by side in daily life. For a broader look at personal journeys, see Journey quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brazil was a very good experience. I learned a lot about how to play football, both technical and physical. There would be a hundred kids of all ages, training and doing classes together.
- Build
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- Nov 07, 2020
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
- Nov 07, 2020
A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace.
- Habitual
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we train ourselves by constant practice to stop verbalizing, the brain can experience things as they are.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There's European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020