#experience

"Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth."

"You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation."

"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."

"Déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It show that time doesn't pass. It's a leap into something we have already experienced and that is being repeated."

"The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating."

"Knowledge is the essence of organized information systems. Wisdom is the essence of knowledge and experience."

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

"Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything."

"Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience."

"However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience."

"Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle."

"The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark."

"Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience."

"People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out."

"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."

"Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves."

"From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom."

"I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me."

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."

"Happiness is a collection of joyful experiences shared with soul friends. Get together and have some fun!"