Experiences Quotes
253 quotes
"There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense the short periods of time we get with people, or the outcomes from their choices. However, if you turn it over to God he promises that you will see the big picture in the hereafter. Nothing is too small to be a mistake."
"Who are you?Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?I have. I am fucking crazy.But I am free."
"Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us, and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love."
"Nostalgia is being blind to the bad and only remembering the good. Thinking about all the love I had for her is a positively Helen-Kelleresque experience."
"Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it."
"The more fucked up you are, the more I like you. As long as you've managed to hold onto your identity through all the shit, then it won't matter how twisted you are. I will love you more for it."
"Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms."
"Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ..."
"The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well."
"What you have learned from experience is worth much more than gold. If you have a house it may burn down. Any kind of possession can be lost, but your experience is yours forever. Keep it and find a way to use it."
"Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table."
"Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience."
"Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems."
"But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view."
"It’s important that what thoughts you are feeding into your mind because your thoughts create your belief and experiences. You have positive thoughts and you have negative ones too. Nurture your mind with positive thoughts: kindness, empathy, compassion, peace, love, joy, humility, generosity, etc. The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life."
"We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences. We awaken when we see popular opinion being wrong but accepted as being right, and what is right being pushed as being wrong. We awaken by seeking answers in corners that are not popular. And we awaken by turning on the light inside when everything outside feels dark."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers."
"Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past."
"True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do."
"If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear."
"Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God's eyes will always have the compassion to understand why."
"Whoever said that money didn't buy happiness was a damn fool. A damn fool who'd never been poor."
"A human beings’ perception of reality emanates from viewing the universe, which is in a constant state of creation and destruction. The universe in which we move and work in outlasts human interests, hopes, expectations, and joy, and all forms of aversion, effort, pain, and humiliation. The world outlasts our dreams, love songs, bouts of inanity and anxiety, it outlast regrets, remorse, and shame."
"It was the helplessness that scared the both of us."
"Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving!And then taking that experience to help others..."
"Wisdom is the essence of experiences."
"STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book?RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing to the top. And finally when I got there, I discovered what was at the top.You know what was there?STRAUSS: No, I don't.RICHIE: Nothing. Not one thing. What was at the top was all the experiences that you had to get there."
"Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we see the importance of the qualities we lack and our unfinished soul's potential."
"Travel teaches as much as a teacher."
"If you have experienced injustice and insulted by the ungodliness, then you are a candidate to stand against the same."
"A sincere decision to make is to refuse to give up until the society experiences the defeat of every form of injustice and ungodliness."
"By studying yesterday, you will understand today."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist."
"Trekking means a travelling experience with a thrilling excitement."
"Travelling the road will tell you more about the road than the google will tell you about the road."
"Travelling shouldn't be just a tour, it should be a tale."
"The experiences you get from failures early in life, will carry you for the rest of your life."
"Wearing a $1,000 suit and driving a Ferrari may be better than riding around in a beaten-uppickup truck, but when it’s all said and done, it’ll be the experiences you remember, not the stuff."
"Experience is the only subject worthwhile of study."
"Experience gives the greatest lessons of life."
"Every relationship that has hit a crossroads has asked, “What is it that you want from me?"
"You can best write about your own experiences."
"If experience is the best teacher, there's nothing that comes close to the experience of life."
Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
"Introspective souls are often tormented by their passionate visions. This is because visionaries see what shall be and wake up to what is. However, if you couldn't see a glimpse of the city lights while stranded in the forest, how would you ever know to walk in that direction? Sometimes, your vision can't be put into action, until you gather the learning experiences, along your journey first."
"They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor."
"With the grace of hopeful heart, you can overcome emotional shocks."
"Life experiences shared with a friend will turn into memories to be enjoyed."
"Life is a journey filled with experiences but without the experiences, there will be no life."
"Have no regrets in life because of the choices you make. Good or bad, they are a learning experience, to help you grow. The only regret in life, is to never make a choice at all."
"Our evolution depends on our memory. If we keep forgetting the mistakes of the past, only to keep repeating them, then we will never change. Humanity will never move forward, spiritually or morally, to become superior beings."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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