Quotes About Experiences

Education should provide the tools for a widening and deepening of life, for increased appreciation of all one sees or experiences. It should equip a person to live life well, to understand what is happening about him, for to live life well one must live with awareness.

Is a man ruled by his own free will, or is he a composite of all his experiences, his education and heredity?

The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level.

Spirituality must be distinguished from religion—because people of every faith, and of none, have had the same sorts of spiritual experiences.

Spirituality must be distinguished from religion—because people of every faith, and of none, have had the same sorts of spiritual experiences. While these states of mind are usually interpreted through the lens of one or another religious doctrine, we know that this is a mistake.

Create experiences that leave you in awe, for these will be the highlights of your life.

I think many people have an illusion of success based on entering in at a level that's higher than their experiences.

Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.

As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.

I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.

I think of life as a book of stories, he goes on. You move through the stories and the characters change.

And like any group thrown together in a strange situation, we developed the sort of we're-in-this-together, for-better-or-for-worse camaraderie that I found appealingly familiar. It was something I missed, the sense of sharing those small, daily experiences that, as far as I can tell, are really what life boils down to.

The many identities you hold and your lived experiences are not in conflict with each other; they make you sharp, whole, and extraordinary.

Say what you will, he proves to us, in spite of the most debasing experiences that life can offer a man, the spirit of love survives to ennoble our lives if we have the wit and the courage and the faith – and the art! to persist.

His experiences at the scene of so many violent events had not hardened him: he was still vulnerable to the emotions of his adolescence.

Reason this: When you think from your past memories, you can only create past experiences. As all of the "knowns" in your life cause your brain to think and feel in familiar ways, thus creating knowable outcomes, you continually reaffirm your life as you know it. And since your brain is equal to your environment, then each morning, your senses plug you into the same reality and initiate the same stream of consciousness.

your familiar memories related to your known world "re-mind" you to reproduce the same experiences.

Emotions are the chemical consequences (or feedback) of past experiences.

I want to point out that feelings and emotions are the end products of past experiences.

Thinking the same thoughts leads us to make the same choices. Making the same choices leads to demonstrating the same behaviors. Demonstrating the same behaviors leads us to create the same experiences. Creating the same experiences leads us to produce the same emotions. And those same emotions then drive the same thoughts.

Tener los mismos pensamientos de siempre nos lleva a tomar las mismas decisiones. Tomar las mismas decisiones nos lleva a manifestar la misma conducta. Manifestar la misma conducta nos lleva a crear las mismas experiencias. Crear las mismas experiencias nos lleva a tener las mismas emociones. Y tener las mismas emociones nos conduce a los mismos pensamientos

Between remembering stressful experiences from the past and anticipating stressful situations coming up in your future, all these repetitive short-term stresses blur together into long-term stress. Welcome to the 21st-century version of living in survival mode.

The conscious mind is where we store our explicit, or declarative, memories. Therefore, declarative memories are memories that we can declare. They're the knowledge we've learned (termed semantic memories) and experiences we've had in this lifetime (episodic memories).

If it sounds as though I'm saying that we live a huge part of our lives on autopilot, that's exactly right. Thinking the same thoughts leads us to make the same choices. Making the same choices leads to demonstrating the same behaviors. Demonstrating the same behaviors leads us to create the same experiences. Creating the same experiences leads us to produce the same emotions. And those same emotions then drive the same thoughts.