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Quotes About Experience

Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and experience something before its meaning becomes apparent. It's one thing to talk about leaving behind a restrictive mindset. It's another to stop being so restrictive.
~ Lori Gottlieb
Study after study shows that the most important factor in the success of your treatment is your relationship with the therapist, your experience of "feeling felt.
~ Lori Gottlieb
you can't mute one emotion without muting the others. You want to mute the pain? You'll also mute the joy.
~ Lori Gottlieb
There's a biblical saying that translates roughly as 'First you will do, then you will understand.' Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and experience something before its meaning becomes apparent. It's one thing to talk about leaving behind a restrictive mindset. It's another to stop being so restrictive. The transfer of words into action, the freedom of it, made me want to carry the action outside the therapy room and into my life.
~ Lori Gottlieb
FAILURE IS PART OF BEING HUMAN.
~ Lori Gottlieb
Why Italian? In order to develop another pair of eyes, in order to experiment with weakness
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
I think that a writer should observe the real world before imagining a non-existent one.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
That's why I'm compelled to tell this story - don't we all have one secret that has shaped us we are burning to reveal? - to convince myself that I'm entitled to my own life.
~ Unknown
Based upon my experience with losing my left mind, I whole-heartedly believe that the feeling of deep inner peace is neurological circuitry located in our right brain.
~ Jill Bolte Taylor
To experience pain may not be a choice, but to suffer is a cognitive decision
~ Jill Bolte Taylor
If you look closely you'll find all my lovers inscribed on my skin.
~ Jill Ciment
It made me realize that Beatrice had changed; that she did not pull her wagon so much as she got taken for rides.
~ Jill McCorkle
The older he got, the less he believed and then the less he believed the more capable he was of believing. Such a cool paradox. He said.
~ Jill McCorkle
Honest to God, she was the noisiest woman he'd ever been shot at with.
~ Jill Shalvis
But you make of it [life] what you can, and you do your best to enjoy the hell out of it, because it's the only life you get.
~ Jill Shalvis
Josh had made a lot of mistakes in his life, and he'd tried to learn from all of them. He definitely tried to not repeat them. Hiring Grace had been his favorite mistake so far.
~ Jill Shalvis
Sixty-five seconds, he said. You weren't breathing for sixty-five seconds after we found you. I lived and died during each one of them. He let out a breath. Never again.
~ Jill Shalvis
You only live once, right? Not true, Quinn said, you live every day. You only die once.
~ Jill Shalvis
There was the amount of time you'd known someone and then there was the way you'd spent that time.
~ Jill Shalvis
It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others." Chloe Traeger
~ Jill Shalvis
She'd read somewhere that every woman got a freebie stupid mistake when it came to men.
~ Jill Shalvis
We all have horrible track records," he said. "It's what leads up to the real thing. It's what allows you to recognize it when it shows up.
~ Jill Shalvis
You probably had more adventures today than I'll have in a lifetime. Walking must seem tame to you." "Elle, you're more of an adventure than anything that's ever happened to me.
~ Jill Shalvis
The question is, did you get your life-changing experience? Amy looked at Matt and smiled. I did. Matt's entire heart turned over in his chest. Damn, he said, pulling her in. Damn, I love you. Watch the arm! Josh warned. He's not watching that arm, Ty said as Matt kissed Amy again.
~ Jill Shalvis