#experience

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear, and get a record of successful experiences behind you. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#experience

Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character, and increase our compassion for others. ↗

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

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In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#growth #holy-spirit #self #experience

It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps. ↗

— Peter Straub

#terror #experience

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#caring #effort #experience #garden #gardener

If I only made dances about my own experience in dance, it would always be on my track, and I don't want that, I want to be on the track of where dance can take me. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#always #dance #dances #experience #i

Well, one of the things a lot of Americans don't know, when Mitt Romney is nominated a few days from now, he will be the most experienced executive to be nominated for the presidency since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, who had run a university and had run the allied war effort. That's actually a big deal. ↗

— Artur Davis

#allied #big #big deal #days #deal

But beginners to the World Economics Forum have to understand there is no single Davos experience, and there is no single Davos community either. There are numerous tribes who interact only at a minimal level. ↗

— Evan Davis

#community #economics #either #experience #forum

Meditation is listening to the song of the inner Soul, seeing the beauty of the inner Self, smelling the fragrance of the inner Spirit, experiencing the touch of the Divine inner energies and tasting the intense sweetness of the inner God. ↗

— Amit Ray

#inner-spirit #meditation #meditation-experience #beauty

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

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