Experience

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  • Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.
        Frank Herbert   Best?
  • In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
        General Douglas MacArthur   Best?
  • Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.
        Katharine Hepburn   Best?
  • Be thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be meant to receive greater.
        Thomas a Kempis   Best?
  • Here, you can't live as you like - in any way or circumstance. You're like a bit out of those coloured mosaics in the hall, you have to fit in your own set, fit into your own pattern, because you're put there from the first. But you don't want to be like a fixed bit of a mosaic - you want to fuse into life, and melt and mix with the rest of folk, to have some things burned out of you.
        D. H. Lawrence   Best?
  • Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
        Jerry Garcia   Best?
  • Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
        Cheryl Tiegs   Best?
  • The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  • Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.
        Vernon Law   Best?
  • Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.
        Anne Rice   Best?
  • May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
        Edward Abbey   Best?
  • O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!
        Sophocles   Best?
  • It's like: never relax, never take that breath, never stop to get that drink of water. You know you can always smell roses when you're running with them in your hand.
        Garth Brooks   Best?
  • Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
        Theodore Roosevelt   Best?
  • Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel -- as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can -- then I am nothing.
        Elizabeth Janeway   Best?
  • If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
        Anne Morrow Lindbergh   Best?
  • Always be aware of any helpful item that weighs less than it's operating manual.
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • You know who I idolized? Mr. Rogers. Is there a market for the next Mr. Rogers? Because I'd love to do that. I'd much rather be quiet and important like him than live large and be some useless celebrity.
        Clay Aiken   Best?
  • What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there-- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain.
        Jeff Melvoin   Best?
  • There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vadar in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes!
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • The fact that we don't know this man, isn't important really. Cause his experience is our experience, and his fate is our fate. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass, says the preacher. All is vanity I think that's a pretty good epitaph for all of us. When we're stripped of all our worldly possessions and all our fame, family, friends, we all face death alone. But it's that solitude in death that's our common bond in life. I know it's ironic, but that's just the way things are. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass. Only when we understand all is vanity, only then, it isn't.
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.
        D. H. Lawrence   Best?
  • Live always in the best company when you read.
        Sydney Smith   Best?
  • If you do not feel ashamed of anything, then you can do whatever you like.
        Prophet Mohammad   Best?
  • Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes   Best?
  • If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
        John Cage   Best?
  • You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
        John Wooden   Best?
  • People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
        David H. Comins   Best?
  • A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes   Best?
  • One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.
        Etty Hillesum   Best?
  • For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
        Nelson Mandela   Best?
  • I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.
        Shakti Gawain   Best?
  • If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
        Nadine Stair   Best?
  • Life is consciousness.
        Emmet Fox   Best?
  • War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
        Jimmy Carter   Best?
  • I just bought a microwave fireplace. You can spend an evening in front of it in only eight minutes.
        Steven Wright   Best?
  • But why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live, as if everybody else is inadequate? Why can't they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?
        Hanif Kureishi   Best?
  • It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.
        George Harrison   Best?
  • Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.
        Galileo Galilei   Best?
  • There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
        Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   Best?

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