#experience

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#because #class background #experienced #going #having

Time exists so that you can experience these flavors as deeply as possible. On the path of devotion, if you can experience even a glimmer of love, its possible to experience a little more love. When you experience that a little more, then the next degree of intensity is possible. Thus, love engenders love until you reach the point of saturation, when you totally merge with the divine love. this is what the mystics mean when they say that they plunge into the ocean of love to drown themselves. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#mystics #spirituality #experience

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#economical #experience #order #physics

The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience. ↗

— Howie Mandel

#any #comes #experience #life #life experience

I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing in this universe as hell, except maybe in our own terrified minds. Because if even one broken and limited human being could experience even one such episode of absolute forgiveness and acceptance of her own self, then imagine—just imagine!—what God, in all His eternal compassion, can forgive and accept. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#compassion #forgiveness #god #love #people

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics, and other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties. ↗

— Aberjhani

#human-nature #humanity #identity #mirrors #personal-identity

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#draw #experience #future #gather #invest

I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#before #enough #experienced #first #going

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#american experience #build #business #essence #experience

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#because #commitment #energy #experience #invest