#experience

As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#awareness #comedian #education #experience #important

I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly missing from her world: the dog had introduced to her field of vision some previously unavailable hue and without a dog, that color was gone. That seemed to capture the experience of loving a dog with eminent simplicity. I'd amend it only slightly and say that if we are open to what they have to give, dogs can introduce us to several colors with names like wildness, nurturance, trust and joy. ↗

— Carolyn Knapp

#experience

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#experience

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#experience #life #experience

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#process #experience

When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears. ↗

— S.N. Goenka

#truth #experience

In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on. ↗

— May Sarton

#optimism #experience

People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#bonding #companionship #dogs #experience #friendship

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#deceit #deception #fable #fake #false

Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win. ↗

— Patricia Hewitt

#difficult #election #expecting #experience #how