Human Experience Quotes

• We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Life, Spiritual, Positive Thinking

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, 1955.

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Cheer Up, Reality

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• No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

  Paulo Freire

  Self, Experience, World

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• The most valuable lessons in life cannot be taught, they must be experienced.

  Liam Payne

  Inspirational, Life, Experience

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• No part of your experience is wasted. Everything you've experienced so far is part of what you were meant to learn.

  Martha Beck

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• Humor is a very big part of life, and if you exclude humor from your book, you're not capturing a very important part of human experience.

  Joshua Ferris

  Book, Important

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Spiritual, Humans, Human Beings

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• There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

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• And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Change, Life Lesson

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 25, 2016

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• The purpose of life is to know yourself, create yourself, experience yourself as Who You Really Are. There is no other reason to do anything.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Experience Yourself, Purpose

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Feb 13, 2017

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• Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Honesty, Hate, Integrity

  Television broadcast, December 31, 1955.

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• You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.

  Byron Katie

  Simple, Anxiety

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2013

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• Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were.

  Timothy Keller

  Wise, Heart, Suffering

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• Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don't have to stay that way.

  Joyce Meyer

  Change, Past, Self

  Twitter post from May 2, 2012

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• Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

  Malcolm X

  Personality, Ingredients, Birth

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.159, Ballantine Books

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  People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Helen Keller (1994). “Light in My Darkness”

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• There are only two energies at the core of the human experience: love and fear. Love grants freedom, fear takes it away. Love invites full expression, fear punishes it. Love invites you, always, to break the bonds of ignorance.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Ignorance, Expression, Two

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 17, 2017

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• 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

  Joy, Together, And Love

  Gary Zukav (2014). “The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• The worst loss you've ever experienced is the greatest gift you can have.

  Byron Katie

  Loss, Worst, Greatest Gifts

  Twitter post from Apr 26, 2011

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  Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

  Cornel West

  Hope, Courage, Compassion

  FaceBook post by Dr. Cornel West from Jun 16, 2010

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• If you knew me in the past, please do not think that I am the same person that you are meeting today. I have experienced more of life, I have encountered new depths in those I love, I have suffered and prayed and I am different.

  John Powell

  Past, Thinking, Depth

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• We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

  Thomas Merton

  Uplifting, Men, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.106, New Directions Publishing

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• Think of all your experiences as a huge tapestry that can be laid out in whatever pattern you wish. Each day you add a new thread to the weaving. Do you craft a curtain to hide behind, or do you fashion a magic carpet that will care you to unequaled heights?

  Tony Robbins

  Fashion, Thinking, Magic

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Oct 21, 2014

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