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You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of the small experience that we do have. -- John Banville
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life. -- Charles Ives
The truest experience of life is when we dream awake. -- Alberto Villoldo
Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field. -- Bill Crawford
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination. -- Vernon Howard
If experience is the best teacher, there's nothing that comes close to the experience of life. -- Michael A. Singer
My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine. -- Jane Pauley
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure. -- Joseph Campbell
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life. -- Tony Robbins
From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers. -- Muriel Spark
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The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain. -- Abbas Kiarostami
I think to be a good actor you need either a good experience of life or education, or both. -- Honeysuckle Weeks
The experience of life in a finite, limited body is specifically for the purpose of discovering and manifesting supernatural existence. -- Pythagoras
Religion is not an experiment, it is an experience of life through which one is part of the cosmic adventure. -- Raimon Panikkar
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. -- Carl Jung
A warrior knows that his days are few which leads him to an intense experience of life that is unknown to others. -- Milton Katselas
Life happens from within. How aware you are of it, decides the quality of your body, your mind, and your experience of life. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life. -- William Graham Sumner
You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself. -- Joy Page
Looking at everything through your phone is only numbing your perception - it does not really enhance your experience of life in any way. -- Jaggi Vasudev
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. -- Ellen Key
Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls. -- Elizabeth Prentiss
It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength. -- Frank Duff
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the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the 'sponsoring thought' that created the interpretation that created your experience of life. -- Bill Crawford
I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless. -- Michael Frayn
If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be a very different place. -- Jaggi Vasudev
My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two. -- John Ortberg
I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life. -- Doris Lessing
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind. -- Giacomo Leopardi
Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection. -- Antonin Artaud
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity. -- Jimmy Carter
Homo homini lupus [man is wolf to man]. Who in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion? -- Sigmund Freud
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc. -- Franz Kafka
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature. -- Hans Hofmann
In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life. -- Mark Nepo
Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life! -- Greg Anderson
The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day. -- Robert Adams
Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood. -- Walter Kaufmann
There are two ways to respond to the trials and tribulations of our present and past . . . 'Ain't it awful?' . . . or . . . 'Good information!' Our choice of responses will determine our experience of life. -- Bill Crawford
Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers. -- Simon Mainwaring
My experience of life is that it's very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in another place, a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. -- Jasper Johns
...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation. -- Jack Kornfield
Ultimately, it's possible that social media platforms will be designed as templates that the users themselves customize in terms of the best way to express their community and experience of life, and brands will have to simply follow suit. -- Simon Mainwaring
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. -- Laura Schlessinger
Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing. -- Richard Rohr
Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing. -- Richard Rohr
The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience of life has given him a subject, he is spared the youthful writer's self-torment and soul-searching. -- Wright Morris
Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life. -- Ben Affleck
If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of life that you have to tell someone about it, and in a way that reorders the experience to make it manageable. -- Graham Joyce
All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life. -- Nick Nolte
A close, daily intimacy between two people has to be paid for: it requires a great deal of experience of life, logic, and warmth of heart on both sides to enjoy each other's good qualities without being irritated by each other's shortcomings and blaming each other for them." -- Ivan Goncharov
It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal. -- Eknath Easwaran
Through him speaks a shrewd and magnanimous people, a people who have woven together into one wisdom a profound, old, terrible, and unimaginably various experience of life. But he himself is young: impatient, inexperienced. He stands higher than we stand, seeing wider, but he is himself only the height of a man. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of life and the teachings of his parents, his brothers, sisters, playmates, and later of other people FORCE HIM to acknowledge the advantages of social cooperation and accordingly to change his behavior. -- Ludwig von Mises
And I can see that everything about this God has been purposely designed to poison our experience of life on earth, not to enhance it, to keep us fearful, to suppress knowledge, to curtail freedom and creativity, and to celebrate death. It's nothing less than the sanctified dumbing-down of the human race. And demanding respect for it is frankly an insult that deserves to be repaid with considerable interest. -- Pat Condell
Sound comes out of a life experience. -- Bill Laswell
I have a very broad range of life experiences. -- Gabriel E. Gomez
My whole life has been one of seeking experience. -- Jerry Kramer
A lot of my work comes from my life experiences. -- Kim Weston
Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us. -- Ron Carlson
The Hulk, that was the experience of my life, so far. -- Josh Lucas
Mary Poppins' was one of the best experiences of my life. -- Dick Van Dyke
Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience. -- Howie Mandel
There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience. -- David Duchovny
The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life. -- Anita Hill
Making 'Coraline' was one of the great filmmaking experiences of my life. -- Henry Selick
For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music. -- Amy Grant
To experience life you have to kind of face a lot of fears. -- Carrie-Anne Moss
Yes, the experience of all stages of life are valuable, not just of youth. -- Daniel Petrie
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content. -- Gustav Mahler
I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works. -- Natasha Lyonne
Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life. -- Nicholas Jarecki
The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience. -- Mitch Kapor
The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other. -- Daniel Kahneman
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life. -- Uma Thurman
The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience. -- Sally Ride
Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting. -- Anita Hill
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. -- Samuel Smiles
Life experience is priceless. -- Amanda Seyfried
Life is a near-death experience. -- George Carlin
Life was a pre-death experience. -- Jeanette Winterson
Life is a death-defying experience. -- Edna Buchanan
Life experience is the best teacher. -- David Letterman
We just had a near-life experience! -- Chuck Palahniuk
Life is a very emotional experience. -- Tony Goldwyn
The experience of this sweet life. -- Dante Alighieri
The Genesis of life is experience. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
3D is the way we experience life. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Experience gives the greatest lessons of life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
View life as a continuous learning experience. -- Denis Waitley
Love is, without question life's greatest experience. -- Napoleon Hill
My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
The best teacher in life is experience. -- LeBron James
True wealth: a life rich in experience. -- Marty Rubin
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. -- Henry David Thoreau
Every experience in life changes the brain's anatomy. -- Deepak Chopra
the fruit of life is experience, not happiness. -- Amelia Barr
Experience is a question of instinct about life. -- Oscar Wilde
Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience. -- Etgar Keret
Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life. -- Anais Nin
In the university of life, failure births experience -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
We experience a new life with divine encounter. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven. -- Roger Ailes
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Change your mind and change your whole life experience. -- C.G. Rousing
Every personal experience of my life impacts my music. -- Chaka Khan
Life is a learning experience, only if you learn. -- Yogi Berra
I am grateful for the opportunity to experience life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I am delighted to experience the beauty of life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is a great experience. Dignity is a treasure. -- John Jay Hooker
life is crap but, every day is an experience -- Sarah Waters
Like any other actor, I draw on life experience. -- Donnie Yen
It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life. -- Devendra Banhart

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