Quotes About Experiences

I've bought jewelry for women before," Zoltan growled. "Not in my lifetime.

I DON'T have EX's! I have Y's. Like 'Y the hell did I date you?!' -Kevin Hart

In these letters, I see the unique ability fiction has to connect people, and I see how universal some human experiences are: shame, guilt, regret, friendship, love, forgiveness, atonement.

They can learn- they must learn- to appreciate the history of their good fortune through the experiences of those who not only witnessed history, but made it.

A hurt mammal never forgets. Epigenetic theory suggests an almost Lamarckian transfer down the generations; some genes are activated by experiences, others are not.

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

Some of my students have had really bad experiences with religion. They moved away from talking to God. For a lot of people, angels are a gentle route back to the Creator.

Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional —the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.

One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing.

I'm a hopeless romantic. I consider myself a realistic person who usually finds stories from real life people.

Bygone troubles are good to tell.

everyone has a story or two about that hard-earned lesson of giving more than is asked.

Throughout this book we have repeatedly asked what makes humans superior to other animals. Dataism has a new and simple answer. In themselves, human experiences are not superior at all to the experiences of wolves or elephants. One bit of data is as good as another. However, a human can write a poem about his experience and post it online, thereby enriching the global data-processing system. That makes his bits count. A wolf cannot do this.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems. Consciousness is the ability to feel things such as pain, joy, love and anger.

the mind with the brain, but they are really very different things. The brain is a material network of neurons, synapses, and biochemicals. The mind is a flow of subjective experiences, such as pain, pleasure, anger, and love. Biologists assume that the brain somehow produces

What if superhumans are bored by novels about the experiences of lowly Sapiens thieves, whereas run-of-the-mill humans find soap operas about superhuman love affairs unintelligible?

We need only record and connect our experiences to the great data flow, and the algorithms will discover their meaning and tell us what to do.

The correctness of any of our policies has always to be tested and is always being tested by the masses themselves. We ourselves constantly examine our own decisions and policies. We correct our mistakes whenever we find them. We draw conclusions from all positive and negative experiences and apply those conclusions as widely as possible. In these ways relations between the Communist party and the masses of the people are constantly being improved.

You can gain an unexpected amount of happiness from rediscovering normal, everyday experiences from your past.

In those early days, God gave us wonderful experiences to confirm our faith, then sooner or later, He chose a more difficult curriculum for us. Struggles, disappointments, and misunderstandings about the nature of the Christian life threatened our fledgling faith, but the winter season provided the opportunity to go deeper and grow closer to God.

These are my recollections. If you remember things differently, send me your version—but only if it's funnier.

When experiences or emotions become too overwhlming, the mind clevely encapsulates the material and stores it for safe-keeping. Many people respond this way in the face of trauma, but the additional step that occurs in this process, in the case of DID, is the formation of distinct ego states that carry the experience.