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If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. -- William James
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. -- Helen Keller
A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. -- Steve Jobs
We are Spiritual Beings have a Human Experience. Not the other way around. -- Oprah Winfrey
When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do. -- Sarah Kay
Love is a human experience, not a political statement. -- Anne Hathaway
You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience. -- Wayne Dyer
Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience. -- Buzz Aldrin
A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience. -- Simon Sinek
I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience. -- Judy Chicago
The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. -- Steve Jobs
'Social Network' is a good story with human experience connective tissue that makes it ageless. -- Michael De Luca
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. -- Alice James
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. -- Stephen Covey
Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer. -- Leonard Mlodinow
I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience. -- Robert Duvall
We have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human experience. -- Gary Zukav
Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy. -- Eugene H. Peterson
Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable. -- Starhawk
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Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power. -- Caroline Myss
I've got to say that is - the highest emotion of the human experience is going down in a plane knowing your going to die! -- Louis Zamperini
The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience. -- Eric Kandel
Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy. -- Sam Harris
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick. -- Angela Carter
You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape. -- Woodrow Wilson
When ypu awaken love and laughter in your life, your mind lets go of fear and anxiety, and your happy spirit becomes the healing balm that transforms every aspect of your human experience. -- Jesse Dylan
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run. -- Branch Rickey
The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience. -- Wayne Dyer
One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people. -- Herbie Hancock
If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere. -- P. D. James
The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience. -- Jeff Miller
There are people who've said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption... With all due respect, I humbly dissent. I am not being brave, I'm a decent human being... Love is a human experience, not a political statement -- Anne Hathaway
I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable essence. I still suspect there is something too quirky, too paradoxical, or too interpersonal to be imitated or re-created by machine life. -- Douglas Rushkoff
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive. -- Jaron Lanier
The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully. -- Deepak Chopra
Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love - I think that's the meaning of this human experience. -- Steve Gleason
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation. -- Diablo Cody
Those implications are tremendous beyond description. My experience showed me that the death of the body and the brain are not the end of consciousness, that human experience continues beyond the grave. More important, it continues under the gaze of a God who loves and cares about each one of us and about where the universe itself and all the beings within it are ultimately going. -- Eben Alexander
Human experience is usually paradoxical. -- George Eliot
Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience. -- Matthew Arnold
War is the most extraordinary, extreme human experience. -- Dan Snow
The fundamental human experience is that of compassion. -- Joseph Campbell
Art is about the dynamics of the human experience. -- Danny Glover
Acting is the use of human experience with talent added ... -- Ruth Gordon
Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience. -- Charles Bukowski
Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual. -- Jacques Ellul
I don't experience basic human emotions. It's not my thing. -- Albert Brooks
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge. -- Muhammad Iqbal
Love, in short is the most dangerous emotion human can experience -- Virginia C. Andrews
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...someday..., we'll medicate human experience right out of the human experience. -- Dennis Lehane
My music is about the journey, about love and the human experience. -- Wynonna Judd
Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience. -- Mark Frost
Human experience throughout the ages has been enhanced through learning, information and communication. -- Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done -- Hyman Rickover
It is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal. -- Hillary Clinton
Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience. -- Anna Quindlen
We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth. -- Jacob Needleman
I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is. -- Jennifer Aniston
Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience. -- Anne Frasier
All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience. -- William Ralph Inge
Human has no experience at all aboutliving in a peaceful world without war. -- Toba Beta
People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience. -- Helen Mirren
As a human being, we are on a continuous journey of self-discovery and experience. -- Miranda J. Barrett
Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening. -- Kobo Abe
The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience. -- William Gibson
I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition. -- Maya Angelou
We are spirit in human form playing a game called earth life. Enjoy the experience! -- S.A.M.
For human beings, love is the most important fruit of experience in the sense world. -- Rudolf Steiner
I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience -- Juhani Pallasmaa
That is the most godlike feeling a human can experience; being ignored by rebellious child. -- Dennis Garvin
Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience. -- Marshall McLuhan
Social Network' is a good story with human experience connective tissue that makes it ageless. -- Michael De Luca
Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur. -- Maria Montessori
No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience. -- Marty Rubin
Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience. -- Carl Jung
What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience? -- Rollo May
The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art. -- Claire Messud
Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level. -- Vanna Bonta
It is when you experience another's suffering as your own that your human values is manifested. -- Sathya Sai Baba
The study of the Bible is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience. -- Herbert Hoover
I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash... -- Sigmund Freud
The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion. -- Mason Cooley
Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials. -- Joseph Story
When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience. -- Richard Holloway
Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet -- Michael Brian Schiffer
I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience. -- Alice McDermott
If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience. -- Graham Greene
You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion. -- Joseph Campbell
I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, professionally. -- Chris Noth
It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well. -- Don Marquis
I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience. -- Andrew Lam
Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries. -- Alexander Hamilton
Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite. -- Huston Smith
Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience. -- Jaggi Vasudev
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly. -- Vaclav Havel
My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature. -- Oscar Micheaux
For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience. -- Vivian Gornick
The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms. -- Catherine Wilson
The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent. -- Peter Drucker
Managing the power of choice, with all it's creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience. -- Caroline Myss
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise. -- Aleksandar Hemon
I think it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through. -- Lynne Tillman
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. -- Alice James
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. -- George Eliot
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. -- Samuel Johnson
I think we're dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn't get all that much attention on television. -- Jeff Goldblum
The 30-year-old male is about as far away from Valentine's Day as you can get in the human experience. -- Topher Grace
If you open yourself as an artist, as a human being to this experience of growing, you grow anyway. -- Sergei Polunin
The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait. -- Patricia Wentworth
Transhumanism literally means "beyond human." It's using science and technology to radically change and improve the human species and experience. -- Zoltan Istvan
The incredible stability in inflation is really a novel human experience. And the inflation is being the result of money. -- Russ Roberts

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