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
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
–Samuel Beckett
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Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
–Dan Stanford
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If it could be talked about, everyone would have told their brother.
-Chuang Tzu
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Struggle toward the capital-T Truth, but recognize that the task is impossible—or that if a correct answer is possible, verification certainly is impossible.
In the end, it cannot be doubted that each of us can only see part of the picture. The doctor sees one, the patient another, the engineer a third, the economist a fourth, the pearl diver a fifth, the alcoholic a sixth, the cable guy a seventh, the sheep farmer an eighth, the Indian beggar a ninth, the pastor a tenth. Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete. And truth comes somewhere above all of them, where, as at the end of that Sunday’s reading: the sower and reaper can rejoice together. For here the saying is verified that “One sows and another reaps.” I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the work, and you are sharing the fruits of that work.
―Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
-Anthony Robbins
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
-James Russell Lowell
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We choose our joys and sorrows, long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran
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Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
-Aldous Huxley
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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
-Auguste Rodin
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When you don’t have a higher experience of truth then you see a grain of sand like an enormous mountain. But when you connect to that inner truth you see the grain of sand for what it is and strive for the real mountain.
Radhanath Swami
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Those who have Seen cannot say. That which has been Seen cannot be painted, cannot be reduced to words. But still each one has to give a try – and the world goes on becoming more and more beautiful because of these efforts.
Osho
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Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo Coelho
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I’d rather regret the things that I have done than the things I have not done.
Lucille Ball
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