Where large sums of money are concerned,
it is advisable to trust nobody.
- Agatha Christie
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
In three words, I can sum up everything
I've learned about life - it goes on.
- Robert Frost
Success is the sum of small efforts,
repeated day in and day out.
- Robert Collier
A conversation is greater than
the sum of its participants,
and can take on a life of its own.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
A wise and frugal government,
which shall leave men free to regulate
their own pursuits of industry and improvement,
and shall not take from the mouth
of labor and the bread it has earned -
this is the sum of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make,
both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control
the process of choosing, you can take control
of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom
that comes from being in charge of yourself.
- Robert Foster Bennett
Experience life in all possible ways -
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter.
Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience,
because the more experience you have,
the more mature you become.
- Osho
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent
will not pass until there is
an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cloud Animals: Be a Child Again.
I remember warm summer afternoons,
laying in the shade of a maple tree in the back yard
of my Connecticut home watching the clouds for hours.
As those clouds formed dragons and foxes, clowns and angels,
I traveled across space and time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What this country needs is a credit card for
charging things to experience.
- Tom Wilson
I've always believed that if done properly,
armed robbery doesn't have to be an unpleasant experience.
- the movie Thelma & Louise
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Samuel Johnson [also attributed to Oscar Wilde]
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It has been my experience that folks who
have no vices, have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
- Dan Stanford
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
- Jim Horning
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute
with love, grace, and gratitude.
- Denis Waitley
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business
that allows us to experience the present,
free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko
Follow that will and that way
which experience confirms to be your own.
- Carl Jung
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid
for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What I recognized is that you can't put it together.
It's already together, and what you have to do
is experience it being together.
- Werner Erhard
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Experience demands that man is
the only animal which devours his own kind,
for I can apply no milder term to
the general prey of the rich on the poor.
- Thomas Jefferson
If money is your hope for independence,
you will never have it.
The only real security that
a man can have in this world
is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability.
- Henry Ford
When people speak to you about a preventive war,
you tell them to go fight it.
After my experience, I have come to hate war.
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I adore the human experience
- Jewel
Never "for the sake of peace and quiet"
deny your own experience or convictions.
- Dag Hammarskjold
He who is persistent will realize God.
So try your best to make meditation
a regular experience in your life.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come,
not of booky teaching, but of experience.
- Mark Twain
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
Never, never and never again shall it be
that this beautiful land will again experience
the oppression of one by another.
- Nelson Mandela
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
We Learn...
10% of what we read,
20% of what we hear,
30% of what we see,
50% of what we see and hear,
70% of what we discuss,
80% of what we experience,
95% of what we teach others.
- William Glasser
It was the experience of mystery -
even if mixed with fear -
that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein
If what Proust says is true,
that happiness is the absence of fever,
then I will never know happiness.
For I am possessed by a fever
for knowledge, experience, and creation.
- Anais Nin
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
We deem those happy, who from the experience of life
have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
- Carl Jung
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Heaven is within us, and we experience it
to the degree that we become conscious of it.
- Ernest Holmes
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter
everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe
that change forever how we experience life and the world.
- John Milton
Experience does not err.
Only your judgments err by expecting from her
what is not in her power.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Every thought has a consequence.
And every experience has a causative thought behind it.
- Ernest Holmes
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau
Well-being is making its way to you at all times.
If you will relax and find a way to allow it,
it will be your experience.
- Abraham (Esther Hicks)
Experience hath shown, that even
under the best forms of government,
those entrusted with power have,
in time, and by slow operations,
perverted it into tyranny.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I left the "eye for an eye" God
when I walked out of Bible school,
but God Within is a daily part of my personal experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
- Joseph Campbell
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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