Experience teacheth that resolution is a sole help in need.
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
I got mugged about six months ago. The oddest thing about the entire situation, though, was that I wasn't afraid, which is strange because basically I experience my life through two primary emotions: fear and suppressed fear.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.
There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.
Actors are as good as they allow themselves to be, and to portray life, you have to have as broad an experience of it as you possibly can, so everything's worth it.
The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly a bottle that has been through the past 100 years, makes you take stock of your own life.
You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the better it is. . . unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far.
An enlightened being comes into the world because they can help. They are off the wheel. They will experience different states of mind. They will suffer. They will know joy. But ultimately, they are free of all that.
Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.
You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.
how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!
Focus on beauty all day long. Realize how incredibly beautiful your life is. How incredibly beautiful it is to feel, to look around, to be, to experience all this wonder.
How do you change what you believe when your experience has convinced you otherwise? By creating a new experience. The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens. By the natural law of cause and effect, that new response will create new results, which you will then experience as a new reality. To reach the goal of happiness, act as though the following statement is already true: Everything that happens to me is the best thing that can happen to me.
Motivation is the key. More than training, more than experience or age, motivation counts. You have to ask yourself: 'Why am I racing?' I race because I like it, because I'm really enjoying it. I like to set up my bike and ride it on track. After 20 years in the GPs I'm still highly motivated. Everything else is a consequence.
Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.
In my experience, you get a job for a reason. Your work life happens for a reason.
The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.
Experience belongs to the actor, but the story belongs to the teller. We write so we will never forget.