Personal Experiences Quotes

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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• We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• Don’t be afraid to speak from personal experience; in many ways, those vulnerable moments will be the key that unlocks a hardened heart.

  Luis Palau

  Inspirational, Heart, Keys

  Luis Palau, Timothy L. Robnett (2006). “Telling the Story: Evangelism for the Next Generation”, p.1895, Gospel Light Publications

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• The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.

  David Bentley Hart

  Reality

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• There is a direct relationship between our personal experience with the Lord and how we see ourselves. The closer we grow to him, the more clear and complete becomes our vision of who we are, who we have always been, and who we may become.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Vision, Who We Are, May

  Sheri L. Dew (2001). “No Doubt about it”

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• You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Dream, Business

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• I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. But all this took me a lifetime to discover, and where has it gotten me?... Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

  Jodi Picoult

  Loving Life, People, Choices

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people seek meaning in life through personal gain, through personal relationship, or through personal experiences. However, it seems to me that being blessed with the intellect to divine the ultimate secrets of nature gives meaning enough to life.

  Michio Kaku

  Blessed, People, Giving

  FaceBook post by Dr. Michio Kaku from Feb 16, 2010

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• I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.

  Bram Stoker

  Animal, Ideas, Looks

  Bram Stoker (1904). “Dracula”, p.126, Hayes Barton Press

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• We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen by anyone. It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere.

  Primo Levi

  Events, Fundamentals, Unexpected

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• Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative teaching but above all to a deep personal experience which is at once unique and yet shared by the whole Body of Christ, in the Spirit of Christ.

  Thomas Merton

  Teaching, Unique, Doors

  John C. H. Wu, Jingxiong Wu, Thomas Merton, Kenneth Kraft (2003). “The Golden Age of Zen: Zen Masters of the T'Ang Dynasty”, p.21, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Sam, that's a great concept. And maybe you believe it. But I'm black and I'm a lesbian, so let me tell you: From what I know? Personal experience? There are always lines.

  Michael Grant

  Believe, Black, Lines

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• Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us to fight through to final victory.

  George VI

  War, Fighting, People

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• The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

  Paul Wellstone

  Inspirational, Believe, Teaching

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• If I was drunk, I wouldn’t be here at all. And really, this is pretty good for four White Russians.” “White what?” I almost sat down but was afraid the chair might dematerialize beneath me. “It’s a drink,” he said. “You’d think I wouldn’t be into something named that—you know, considering my own personal experience with Russians. But they’re surprisingly delicious. The drinks, not real Russians.

  Richelle Mead

  Real, Thinking, White

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.158, Penguin

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• One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Such men make this cosmos and its construction the pivot of their emotional life, in order to find the peace and security which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

  Walter Isaacson

  Art, Memorable, Men

  "Einstein: His Life and Universe". Book by Walter Isaacson, 2007.

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• I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.

  Donald Miller

  Girl, Regret, Thinking

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.82, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• -Who are you, anyway? -Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Thinking, Attractive, Knows

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• There is a certain kind of pain that can change you. Even the strongest sword, when placed in a raging fire, will soften and bend and change its form... Trust me on this one. I know this from personal experience. I hope that you never will, but, since you're a person, and therefore prone to making horrible, soul-splitting mistakes, you probably will one day know what this kind of guilt and shame feels like. And when that time comes, I hope you have the strength...to take advantage of the fire and reshape your own sword.

  Adam Gidwitz

  Pain, Mistake, Fire

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• We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.

  Brennan Manning

  Backyards, Desert, Kind

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.24, Multnomah

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• Yes, I can talk and think at the same time. Most people can, though I suppose you wouldn't know that from personal experience. Elena (Bitten)

  Kelley Armstrong

  Thinking, Yes I Can, People

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Bitten”, p.252, Vintage Canada

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• You cannot be fair to others without first being fair to yourself. Know that a well-honed sense of justice is a measure of personal experience, and all experience is a measure of self. Know that the highest expression of justice is mercy. Thus, as the supreme judge in your own court, you must have compassion for yourself. Otherwise, cede your gavel.

  Vera Nazarian

  Compassion, Self, Expression

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• I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Song, Songwriters

  "Melissa Etheridge takes a look back in 12th album". Interview with Mark Kennedy, sg.news.yahoo.com. September 5, 2012.

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• The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

  E. M. Forster

  Moving, Men, Gains

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• What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.

  Temple Grandin

  Research, World, Crosses

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