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I never saw a discontented tree.
They grip the ground as though they liked it,
and though fast rooted, they travel about as far as we do.
- John Muir
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent
will not pass until there is
an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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Experience life in all possible ways -
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter.
Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience,
because the more experience you have,
the more mature you become.
- Osho
Cloud Animals: Be a Child Again.
I remember warm summer afternoons,
laying in the shade of a maple tree in the back yard
of my Connecticut home watching the clouds for hours.
As those clouds formed dragons and foxes, clowns and angels,
I traveled across space and time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I've always believed that if done properly,
armed robbery doesn't have to be an unpleasant experience.
- the movie Thelma & Louise
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Samuel Johnson [also attributed to Oscar Wilde]
What this country needs is a credit card for
charging things to experience.
- Tom Wilson
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
It has been my experience that folks who
have no vices, have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
- Dan Stanford
Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute
with love, grace, and gratitude.
- Denis Waitley
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business
that allows us to experience the present,
free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
- Jim Horning
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
We Learn...
10% of what we read,
20% of what we hear,
30% of what we see,
50% of what we see and hear,
70% of what we discuss,
80% of what we experience,
95% of what we teach others.
- William Glasser
Follow that will and that way
which experience confirms to be your own.
- Carl Jung
Never, never and never again shall it be
that this beautiful land will again experience
the oppression of one by another.
- Nelson Mandela
Heaven is within us, and we experience it
to the degree that we become conscious of it.
- Ernest Holmes
Never "for the sake of peace and quiet"
deny your own experience or convictions.
- Dag Hammarskjold
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter
everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe
that change forever how we experience life and the world.
- John Milton
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Experience demands that man is
the only animal which devours his own kind,
for I can apply no milder term to
the general prey of the rich on the poor.
- Thomas Jefferson
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid
for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Experience does not err.
Only your judgments err by expecting from her
what is not in her power.
- Leonardo da Vinci
He who is persistent will realize God.
So try your best to make meditation
a regular experience in your life.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
It was the experience of mystery -
even if mixed with fear -
that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein
If money is your hope for independence,
you will never have it.
The only real security that
a man can have in this world
is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability.
- Henry Ford
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come,
not of booky teaching, but of experience.
- Mark Twain
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
- Joseph Campbell
What I recognized is that you can't put it together.
It's already together, and what you have to do
is experience it being together.
- Werner Erhard
Every thought has a consequence.
And every experience has a causative thought behind it.
- Ernest Holmes
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
Well-being is making its way to you at all times.
If you will relax and find a way to allow it,
it will be your experience.
- Abraham (Esther Hicks)
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I adore the human experience
- Jewel
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
If what Proust says is true,
that happiness is the absence of fever,
then I will never know happiness.
For I am possessed by a fever
for knowledge, experience, and creation.
- Anais Nin
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
We deem those happy, who from the experience of life
have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
- Carl Jung
When people speak to you about a preventive war,
you tell them to go fight it.
After my experience, I have come to hate war.
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Learn to become still. And to take your attention
away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it,
and place your attention on what you wish to experience.
- Michael Beckwith
Story is a sacred visualization,
a way of echoing experience.
- Terry Tempest Williams
Experience hath shown, that even
under the best forms of government,
those entrusted with power have,
in time, and by slow operations,
perverted it into tyranny.
- Thomas Jefferson
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I left the "eye for an eye" God
when I walked out of Bible school,
but God Within is a daily part of my personal experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Pain is a difficult companion. There's no getting around that.
But, if pain is to be a companion, searching and discovering
your own best ways to travel with that pain
will lead you to the joy that you long to have.
They are your paths, your ways and while my experience
and the experiences of others may inspire you,
ultimately it will be the choices you discover
and make for yourself that lead you to certain joy
in the midst of your challenges.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The soul loves to meditate,
for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy.
If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation,
remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego;
it doesn't belong to the soul.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Truth cannot be defined,
although it can certainly be experienced.
But experience is not a definition.
A definition is made by the mind,
experience comes through participating.
If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it?
But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.
God is the ultimate dance.
- Osho
Many people know so little about what
is beyond their short range of experience.
They look within themselves - and find nothing!
Therefore they conclude that there
is nothing outside themselves either.
- Helen Keller
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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