Quotes About Experience

accepting personal responsibility for everything you experience is critical to ultimately

accepting personal responsibility for everything you experience is critical to ultimately discovering your power,

But there's no such thing as an unchallenged life. And whether or not a person's challenges are visible to others, or greater or lesser than others may have experienced, doesn't change the fact that they exist.

To create a physical world that corresponds to all the vibes you possess, life happens.

Your physical body is the portal of your spirit, the God fragment that you are, through which you physically experience and shape the world you create.

You, the formless and eternal, now temporarily possess a physical body, chemically and organically borrowed from the substances of earth, to channel your nonphysical energy and personality as you negotiate space, travel through time, and experience what has become known as life. Voilà!

I don't know nothing about no marriages or nothing. I ain't even never been to a wedding.

I made my first film on 16mm. Then I began using 35mm. Then I began working in Hollywood. And I began to really understand how films were made by professionals. I have to say I wasn't very impressed.

youth wasn't like the skin of a snake that you sloughed off and never saw again but rather a feeling that you tuck away because you think you don't need it any more and it's only when you come across it by accident that you realise just how much fun it really is

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That's the funny thing about life. Extraordinary things can happen to ordinary people like you and me, but only if we open ourselves up enough to let them.

It's these small moments that make life worth living. The moments you take for granted. The ones you think will always be in plentiful supply. But if this past year has shown me anything, it's the need to cherish each and every moment, whether good or bad, whether joyful or painful, as the precious fleeting gifts that they are.

I've been struck by lightning several times. Three, to be exact: once in high school, once in college, the last time afterward. None of them was my wife, by the way. You don't marry the girl who strikes you like lightning, because that doesn't last forever and you never know what you might be left with when it wears away.

Your heart doesn't flutter like that of a fourteen-year-old girl's when you aren't fourteen anymore.

was described to me as "emerald green," but that is underselling: it was far richer than that, more vivid, a color so intense I could almost taste it. I could certainly feel it. You know a color has moved you when to see it is only the beginning of the experience.

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky either your relationship works or it doesn't.

Well, we played with Soul Coughing once for like two days, that was pretty cool. I mean they were all good, you can pull a great experience from everything.

But maybe you could get better at missing things—and people—with enough practice.

Happy people have just as much pain as anyone else, in some cases more. It could even be argued that the happy feel pain more acutely than the unhappy, whose feelings are relatively numb. The real difference in happy people is that they're not trapped by their pain. Rather than settling inside a happy soul, pain moves through it as through a channel, and that channel is joy. Joy keeps pain moving.

There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.

Our good fortunes allowed us to feel a sadness our parents didn't have time for, and a happiness that I never saw with them.

It is really your undivided attention to a reality you want to experience that draws it toward you —or more accurately, allows it to emerge out of the field of energy around you with great synchronicity and perfection.

I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.

And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic.