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Quotes tagged “Human Experience”

“[crying] He doesn't love me. He never loved me. I was never real to him. Nothing in the human experience is real to him.”
— Paddy Chayefsky, Altered States
Tagged: Love, real, Human Experience
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.”
— Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches: A Novel
Tagged: Dreams, Art, Science, Human Experience, Deep, Mystery
“Your human experience is part of your spiritual journey. You don’t have to expect to live in divine connection all the time. Simply aim to string together many moments of consciousness to remember that you are the spirit of love having a human experience.”
— Gabby Bernstein
Tagged: Life, Spiritual Journey, Spirituality, spiritual life, Human Experience
“It has sex, lies, puberty, betrayal, relay races… 'MILF Island' reflects the drama of the human experience, and isn’t that the essence of art?”
— Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock, Season 2: MILF Island
Tagged: Sex, Lies, Puberty, Betrayal, Drama, Human Experience, Art, Artistic Interpretation
“There is so much complexity, so many layers to the human experience. My wish for us is to not limit our own experience with gross generalizations of people and their circumstances, that lack context and nuance.”
— Joel (Jo-el) Leon.
Tagged: Human Experience, Experiences, Life, life advice, live fully, Live Your Life
“I've come to understand that emotions are a beautiful and very necessary part of the human experience. Tears are the liquid droplets of my soul that you get to see when I'm FEELING. Crying doesn't mean I'm weak, it means I'm strong enough to share with you my vulnerability. So if any of you out there are criers too - embrace it. It's part of you! And it's better than not feeling at all!”
— Cassey Ho
Tagged: emotions, Feelings, vulnerability, Crying, Expressing emotions, expressing feelings, Human Experience
“Somewhere
someone
thinks they love
someone else
exactly like
I
love you.
Somewhere
someone shakes
from the ripple
of a thousand butterflies
inside a
single stomach.
Somewhere
someone
is packing their
bags
to see the world
with someone
else.
Somewhere
someone
is reaching through
the most
terrifying few
feet of space
to hold the
hand
of someone
else.
Somewhere
someone
is watching
someone else’s
chest
rise and fall
with the
breath
of slumber.
Somewhere
someone
is pouring
ink like blood
onto pages
fighting
to say the truth
that has
no words.
Somewhere
someone
is waiting
patient
but exhausted
to just
be
with someone
else.
Somewhere
someone
is opening
their eyes
to a sunrise
in someplace
they have never
seen.
Somewhere
someone
is pulling out
the petals
twisting the
apple stem
picking up
the heads up penny
rubbing the
rabbits foot
knocking on
wood
throwing
coins into
fountains
hunting for
the only clover
with only 4 leaves
skipping over
the cracks
snapping the
wishbone
crossing their
fingers
blowing out
the candles
sending dandelion
seeds into the
air
ushering eyelashes
off their thumbs
finding the first
star
and waiting for
11:11 on
their clock
to spend their
wishes
on someone
else.
Somewhere
someone
is saying
goodbye
but somewhere
someone else
is saying
hello.
Somewhere
someone
is sharing their first
or their last
kiss
with their
or no longer their
someone
else.
Somewhere
someone
is wondering
if how they feel
is how the other
they
feels about them
and if both theys
could ever become
a they
together.
Somewhere
someone
is the decoder ring
to all of
the great mysteries
of life
for someone
else.
Somewhere
someone
is the treasure map.
Somewhere
someone
thinks they love
someone else
exactly like
I
love you.
Somewhere
someone
is wrong.”
— Tyler Knott Gregson, Somewhere, Someone
Tagged: People, humans, Human Connection, human affairs, Human Relationships, Relationships, Human Experience, Living, Experience, Life
“You teach me again what it is
To be human...”
— Paul Eluard, Ring of Peace
Tagged: Love, romance, Fall in love, Learning To Love, Loving, Loving Again, Human Experience, poem, Poetry
“If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.”
— Mitsugi Saotome, Having the Time of Your Life: Little Lessons to Live By
Tagged: Life, Truth About Life, Truth About Being Human, Human Experience, humanity, purpose, Our Purpose
“Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.”
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
Tagged: Life, Truth About Life, Truth About Love, Human Experience, Human Existence, Making Change, Adventure
“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”
— Jim Morrison, Interview
Tagged: Pain, Human Experience, Truth About Being Human, Truth About Life
“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it—or my observation of it—is temporary?”
— Hazel's Dad, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Universe, Life, Living, Human Experience, Observations
“they leaned into everything: cigarettes and stories, nips of whiskey, / laughter like blackbirds rising across a white sky.”
— Joe Wilkins, Notes From The Journey Westward
Tagged: Nature, Laughter, Connecting To Nature, Life, Human Connection, Human Experience, Whiskey, Sky
“Nothing is like what it is: 
the sun, the moon, the meadow 
on the other side of the mountain, 
the conversation we’re having, 
my body beneath these clothes.”
— Dean Rader, "Untitled Self-Portrait" in Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry
Tagged: Defining Yourself, Understanding Life, Finding Truth, Human Experience, Body

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