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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #experience
When ye've lived as long as I have, ye realize how relative time is. I've endured centuries that passed in the blink of an eye as if I were barely breathing.' He stopped and faced her. 'Or I can experience an entire lifetime in the span of a few nights. All the hope and passion that makes life worth living, 'tis suddenly surrounding me like a gift from God.' (Angus MacKay) ↗
Time and suffering are inseperable. In life, as in physics, both are the common denominator of all experiences. ↗
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Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods, or space travelers, instead of by thousands toiling in the sun. Such thinking robs our forerunners of their due, and us of their experience. Because then one can believe whatever one likes about the past - without having to confront the bones, potsherds, and inscriptions which tell us that people all over the world, time and again, have made similar advances and mistakes. ↗
Statistics or graphs,’” are not optimal to understand the ‘experience of suffering.’” (qtd in Sutton 11) ↗
Every experience is a once in a lifetime experience, because no matter how hard we try, nothing's ever exactly the same as it was the first time ↗
Have you ever felt love? Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have definitively and scientifically proved your love existed? If you could not prove it, would that mean your love didn't exist? What would you trust: your own feelings, or science? ↗
We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours. ↗
Every human personality is the product of an innate drive to create something unique from one’s raw individual experience. ↗
