All Quotes By Tag: Experience

“If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they’re supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself.”

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”

“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.”

“Working in dysfunctional companies was an excruciating experience.”

“Material goods rarely alter our levels of happiness, unlike emotional experience. Having can never replace being. -Ilsa Crawford”

“It wasn’t right that you could only understand your parents’ pain once you’d experienced the things they had, and by then they were gone.”

“You don’t have to be in a perfect situation to be happy.You just have to feel at peace with the world.”

“Buddha has walked for an eternity, but his eternity is different from ours. Just as the footprints that he leaves. When we follow in his footsteps, each step of Buddha’s, is in itself, a universe of knowledge which can take many lifetimes for us to discover and learn about.Then, just as we have learnt about this universe and life of ours, we move on to the next step, and then that, too, becomes a new universe to learn about.It is a quest, and a learning experience which we will never finish, and it is one that I have no wish to.”

“You know, doctor, wisdom comes at a hell of an hour—when youth is gone, the storm is over and the girls have gone home.”

“There is a part of us in everyone else.”

“That is the paradox of the human condition. If we humbly accept that our experience of reality is constrained, we immediately loosen the chains that bind us, and we begin to expand.”

“Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning… and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.”

“Waiting for an experience elicits more happiness than waiting for a material good… When we spend money on experiences, those purchases are also more associated with our identity, connection and social behavior.”

“People who spend money on experiences instead of things are just happier all around.”

“Every time you victimized someone,” I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.”