Life Experiences Quotes

You have to make a choice to either let the questions that are haunting you make you a better person or haunt you for the rest of your life. If you chose to let them haunt you, then guess what? It's not going to change the situation because you still won't have the answers to those questions. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

I always wondered if I was ever going to be somebody's hero. I realized - I am my own hero. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

I am somebody. I used to think I was invisible because nobody noticed me, but I set fire to my fear. I am free. I am here, and if it's going to be me against the world, then I am ready. After all the shit I've been through, I can handle anything that comes my way. I am not going to ever let anyone make me feel less than a human being - because I matter. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

There is no public record of Barack Obama's (or Stanley Ann Dunham's) being in the CIA. Perhaps he was, perhaps he wasn't. The reader may consider the information and, based on background, life experiences, and ability to keep an open mind, may come to either conclusion.
But any explanation of why Barack Obama would not have mentioned a word of his Most Excellent Pakistani Adventure in either of his two autobiographies requires a conspiracy theory that might cast doubt on either the sanity or the sincerity fothe person proposing it. ~ Mondo Frazier

Doing well in life is like going up and down stairs.
Its easier to go down but harder to go up. ~ Kimber Simchayof

When there's no stimulus to be found on the outside, you have no option but to look inside yourself for inspiration, and when I did it set off a creativity that had always been inside of me, It mixed with my environment and life experiences to make something tangible,something that expressed me. ~ Bernard Sumner

We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance ... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us. ~ Joan D. Vinge

Remember, we all have to start from somewhere. You made another step today. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

It's easier for me to write certain character types because of my own life experiences, but I find it too artistically limiting to only write about red-headed kids who grew up in small town Montana. That's really part of the fun of fantasy, I think. Our imagination is basically unlimited. Okay, that's a terrifying thing about fantasy, too. ~ Brent Weeks

Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time. ~ Joshua Foer

I am the only one who can create the missing piece of the wing. I have created it, and now - I am whole. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

I am not going to put the blame on you. But… guess what? I am still here. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

You must be easily impressed," Zell said.

Lyriana nodded thoughtfully, not offended at all. "I supposed that's true, certainly compared to someone so worldly. I can only imagine the life experiences you've had to leave you so jaded." Zell blinked, trying to figure out if he'd just been insulted or complimented. ~ Andrew Shvarts

I love the skin I am in! I love my body and I feel better than I ever felt before! ~ Charlena E. Jackson

So many people dragged me into the pit of hell with them. What they failed to realize was that I refused to become settled and make it my home. I've walked out of the pit of hell. I can smile. I am happy because I am finally free. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

To enjoy beauty in the company of myself is to experience beauty bound by the limits of the sole person that I am. But, to experience beauty in the company of God is to experience beauty bound by the limits of Who God is, which is to experience beauty without limits. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Everyone has their own different life experiences which make them who they are. No two people's life experiences are the same. And mine are just unique to me. ~ Keshia Knight Pulliam

I AM TRANSFORMING FOR THE BETTER. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

It should be some kind of goal to be absolutely clear about your past experiences and have let them all go and accepted them in full. ~ Auliq Ice

Depending on your own background and life experiences, this may or may not be new to you, but after an eight-to-twelve-hour day, white office workers often don't feel like they've spent enough time with each other. Therefore, they are prone to organizing pseudo-official company activities such as bowling or happy hour. ~ Baratunde R. Thurston

The views of others reflect not at all upon you unless you allow them to. Their views are colored by their own life experiences: their fears, their loves, their hatreds, their needs, their insecurities. Nothing you can say will ever change their minds. Only they can do that. What better way to show them the error of their ways than to demonstrate to them that the Light that they revere is in every path to spirituality? To lead and instruct by being the best that we can be, always? And that darkness can be found in anyone, in any faith, and that it is not so much to be feared so long as it is in balance with the Light within. Balance is the key. Tolerance is the way. ~ Madelyn Alt

'Growing Stronger' emerged from a need to relate my life experiences as well as my constant struggle to prevail each day, and as a reminder to myself of the importance of never giving up. ~ Thalia

I suck in a deep breath as I plop one foot over the line and then exhale, knowing I'm standing on both sides of the world at once. ~ Christine Riccio

Never forget the life experiences;
Aloneness and companionship.
Cold and warmth.
Hard times and good times.
Failure and success.
Pain and healing.
Planting and harvesting.
Poverty and prosperity.
Searching and finding.
Sorrow and happiness.
Tears and joy. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am going to make the good and bad count today. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

There are various names for this 'Spirit of Life' because there are various life experiences. ~ Jurgen Moltmann

Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing. ~ Sonia Sotomayor

I am grateful to be alive. I am grateful for being able to smile again. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

If using 'was' could be deemed gramatically, or atleast emotionally correct, in the sense that it could relate to something that you actually couldn't do in the past, but want to do right now, then i wanna say, I was sorry, for everything... ~ Allwyn Jose

If freedom, personal responsibility, self-initiative, honesty, integrity, and concern for others rank high in your system of values, and if they represent characteristics you would like to see in your children, then you will want to be a trustful parent. None of these can be taught by lecturing, coercion, or coaxing. They are acquired or lost through daily life experiences that reinforce or suppress them. You can help your children build these values by living them yourself and applying them in your relationship with your children. Trust promotes trustworthiness. Self-initiative and all of the traits that depend on self-initiative can develop only under conditions of freedom. ~ Peter Gray

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences. ~ Lilly Singh

I am a lost soul trying to find my way somehow or other. Sometimes I feel like I am a hopeless case who is trying to find my place in this world. It seems like I do not fit anywhere. I am my peace, my joy, and my comfort place. I am going to take what is given and make something from it to make my life better. I know that I am the only one who can do that. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

Wow, for the first time, I looked in the mirror and truly smiled. What a new kind of wonderful day! ~ Charlena E. Jackson

Grassroots groups challenge the "business-as-usual" environmentalism that is generally practiced by the more privileged wildlife-and conservation-oriented groups. The focus of activists of color and their constituents reflects their life experiences of social, economic, and political disenfranchisement. ~ Robert D Bullard

Dead skin is brittle and dry, and when it sheds, our skin glows and it is smooth and vibrant. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

To me, summer has always been about potential. This was especially true when I was in high school. Those 3 or so months between 1 school year and the next always meant change. People got taller or wider or smaller. They broke up or came together, lost friends or gained them, had life experiences that you could tell had transformed them even if you didn't know what they were. In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible. As a teenager, I was always hoping to change, to become someone other than who I was. Each summer, I felt I had the chance to do that. All I had to do was wait and see what happened. ~ Sarah Dessen

Having life experiences outside of acting is something my family has always made sure happens. ~ Yara Shahidi

You cannot worry about the thing you cannot change. You can only accept them, set them free, and live your life of purpose. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist's most profound life experiences. ~ Alfred Stieglitz

I am a work in progress, but I am getting there. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

Your words were powerful. Your words suffocated me. I was reaching for you - I was reaching for the person who caused me so much pain, to save me. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

The key to long-term success in life is your education and skills, your life experiences, and most of all, your personal character. ~ Robert T. Kiyosaki

The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done. ~ Adam Braun

There is no finish-line on the path to soul growth- there is no race, no perfect place to get to where life is easy. We can release judgement and fear-based thinking when we entertain that life is a journey with many pit-stops along the way and we are responsible for finding the beauty at every twist and turn. ~ Christine Evangelou

I AM MAKING THE DECISION TO MAKE THE BEST OUT OF EVERYTHING AND EVERY SITUATION. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

A lot of times, our guides are at the same level that we are at spiritually. We are their jobs, and they are growing through our life experiences. People have this illusion that their guides are all-knowing and all-wise, and why would we need God if we have our guides? ~ Echo Bodine

It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - why some people can just move on through traumatic experiences, in childhood particularly, and why other people are just paralyzed by it. I just don't know how and why that is. ~ Annette Bening

In my opinion, to assume a persons' motivations, life experiences or self identity may, at best, demonstrate one's ignorance and, at worst, display one's hubris. ~ Tristan A. Star

Your joy ensures your life experiences, always serve to support you - along life's chosen path. ~ Eleesha

A true suicide is a paced, disciplined certainty. People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call it a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reasons: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching. The only selfishness lies in ruining strangers' days by forcing 'em to witness a grotesqueness. So I'll make a thick turban from several towels to muffle the shot and soak up the blood, and do it in the bathtub, so it shouldn't stain any carpets. Last night I left a letter under the manager's day-office door - he'll find it at eight A.M. tomorrow - informing him of the change in my existential status, so with luck an innocent chambermaid will be spared an unpleasant surprise. See, I do think of the little people ~ David Mitchell

Life is a journey filled with experiences but without the experiences, there will be no life. ~ Kemi Sogunle

Life is beautiful. One thing's for sure, we do not need a magnifying glass to see it. The naked eye shows us exactly what we need to see. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

I have blessings waiting on me and I am ready to receive them. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

Fuck I hate fucks
Who think they're so fucking great
They know everything about fucking,
When they're just fucking fucks fucking!
And no one changes the fucking world
When they keep fucking to another fuck's fuck. ~ Initially NO

We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone. ~ Yehuda Berg

In contexts of colonial oppression, intellectuals, especially those who advocate and work for justice, cannot be just-or mere- intellectuals, in the abstract sense; they cannot but be immersed in some form or another of activism, to learn from fellow activists through real-life experiences, to widen the horizons of their sources of inspiration, and to organically engage in effective, collective emancipatory processes, without the self-indulgence, complacency, or ivory-towerness that might otherwise blur their moral vision. In short, to be just intellectuals, committed to justice as the most ethical and durable foundation of peace. ~ Omar Barghouti

I am no longer letting questions haunt me. I want and deserve peace in my life. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

I want better for myself and I am determined to have it. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would think is important. When you think highly of yourself, me thinking highly of you will never be enough! ~ Shannon L. Alder

You can't divorce yourself from your own life experiences. ~ Brett Morgen

Since you cannot experience everything, you need the experiences of others, especially the Beluga Caviar, the quotations! They are the most precious eggs of the big life experiences! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

'Joy' to me is a reflection of the life experiences that I've had throughout the first record and kind of having some time and a hiatus. It's just like all of those experiences that I had during that period - that growing up period. ~ Fefe Dobson

I am making improvements for the good, and soon it will be for the better. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later. ~ Jackie Speier

A mature soul filled with scars of life experiences. ~ Toba Beta

Your perception of life is determined by experiences you allow take its abode in your thought pattern ~ Anita Ibeakanma

As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences. ~ Kevin Nealon

There are still questions that are haunting me, but you know what? I can either live with it or move on with my life, knowing I will not receive an answer and be fine with it. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

To come home and share life experiences with friends is the key to what makes me feel really alive. ~ James Blunt

Our life experiences area result of where our attention takes us. ~ Deepak Chopra

My life experiences are different than the average person because I've spent the last 10 years living in Mexico. I generally don't know what's going on in America, and when I do visit for work, I'm often interrogated about my life choices by random strangers. ~ Ann Aguirre

Never stop falling in love with your significant other.

Don't lose your desire to have sex with your significant other. It can ruin your relationship no matter how much you love them.

If you can see your life without them, they are not The One.

Be happy with what you have because you probably have a lot more then most people will ever get, but that doesn't mean settle for something less. ~ Leah Land

I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans. ~ Dick Gephardt

You are always trying to change me. Gosh, I wish you would stop trying to change me - and see me for who I really am and not who you want me to be. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

I am stronger without you. I am not perfect, but I do know that I am amazing. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

Even as a child, I had a sense that I was two people; the one who experienced the trauma, the pain, the happiness, and the other who stood aside and watched with a disinterested ironic eye. ~ P.D. James

A big part of country music is a way of life, at least from my standpoint. That's how I craft my music from my own life experiences. ~ Luke Bryan

«"The translator, no matter how true he thinks he's staying to the text, still brings his own life experiences and opinions to the decisions he makes. Maybe not consciously, but every time a choice is made
between one meaning of a word or another, the translator determines which one to use based on what he believes is correct, based on his own personal history with the subject."» ~ Stephanie Perkins

This is life.
Learning to love through loss. Seeking warm pockets in the bitter cold. Finding the worth of a smile on a cloudy day. Carrying the weight of the world on weary shoulders - mistakes, sins, injustices - added upon daily. Enduring burdens that spur greater strength.
This is life.
Sorting through layers of expressions staring you straight in the eye. A battle to be right when wrong, to be good when bad, to be content when in need, and to laugh when tearing up.
This is life.
Valuing things of no worth. Reevaluating dreams. Laboring ceaselessly against the current. Seeing less, wanting more, having enough.
This is life.
Chasing the moon when the sun would extend its warmth. Slapping the hand that would offer a gentle caress. Cowering at personal, monstrous shadows. Giving and taking in unbalanced weights. Diminishing the majesty of mountains in order to form our own lowly hills. Hoping for more than we deserve.
This is life.
Hurting. Despairing. Losing. Weeping. Suffering. Laboring. Sinking. Mourning. Appreciating with greater capacity and sincerity a learned knowledge that these adversities do have their opposites.
This is life.
A taste. A revelation. A banishment. A mercy. A test. An experience. A turbulent sea-voyage that shall assuredly reach the unseen shore, making seasoned sailors of us all.
This is life. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I always have to put on my best face. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

Life is not a test or a competition. We only compete with ourselves. ~ Chloe Thurlow

For the first time, I am brave. I confronted someone who made me feel like I do not matter. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences. ~ Fred Durst

It's not the events that shape my life that determine how I feel and act, but, rather, it's the way I interpret and evaluate my life experiences. ~ Tony Robbins

The adult were once young.
The young have not yet attained adulthood.The young must learn to appreciate the wisdom of elderly people and learn from their life experiences. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The meaning of your life depends on which ideas you permit to use you. Who you think you are determines where you put your attention. Where you direct your attention creates your life experiences, and brings a new course of events into being. Where you habitually put your attention is what you worship. What do you worship in this mindstream called your life? ~ Gangaji

I am not going to disappoint myself. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

Freeman's theory helps to explain how love and plasticity affect each other. Plasticity allows us to develop brains so unique in response to our individual life experiences - that it is often hard to see the world as others do, to want what they want, or to cooperate. But the successful reproduction of our species requires cooperation. What nature provides, in a neuromodulator like oxytocin, is the ability for two brains in love to go through a period of heightened plasticity, allowing them to mold to each other and shape each other's intentions and perceptions. The brain for Freeman is fundamentally an organ of socialization, and so there must be a mechanism that, from time to time, undoes our tendency to become overly individualized, overly self-involved, and too self-centered. ~ Norman Doidge

Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because of the conventional conception of womanly purity, has been intimidated from conceding to men a deep insight into her erotic life experiences. ~ Ellen Key

Life comes with many surprises - I've learned that if we have solid support along the way, life isn't as bad as it appears. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

Yoga provides us with a set of tools for creating space between the input of life experiences and the output of our reactions. In that space, we can pay attention. We can notice what we are feeling, think for a moment, and make decisions. Once we can learn to find that space, we can use it to take control of our own lives. ~ Jennifer Cohen Harper

...today, I'm writing about the extraordinary; those 'moments' in life that reach us, and change us. Those moments take place all the time, really – it's just that we're taught not to notice. We're taught that whims are for the foolish; that instinct and passion are more akin to fairy tales than reality; that they won't get us very far, and everyone would laugh at us if they knew what we really held close to our hearts.

It's a lie we allow ourselves, and it's understandable.

But it's simply not true. ~ Dianna Hardy

I finally know how to love myself. I do not need anyone's approval or anyone to love me in order to love myself.

I am truly and wholeheartedly in love with myself - and I wouldn't have it any other way. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

I have a lot of real life experience with hustling and doing stupid stuff. ~ Mark Wahlberg

Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality. ~ Bryan White

Remembering our personal growth that resulted from negative life experiences makes new obstacles easier to embrace. ~ Sam Owen

How often in life are you going to find your mate and that mate happens to be your same exact age and happens to have had the same life experiences to match where you are in our life so you guys can meet perfectly and give society what it wants? It just doesn't happen that way. Some people evolve at 24, some people are 60 and are still evolving. So why are we stopping these great connections based on age, or race or colour or whatever, gender, whatever? You meet who you meet and you connect because of your life experience. ~ Sandra Bullock

Blake: So what am I missing in books that I can't get through real life experiences?
Evelyn: It's a form of escapism. I long to live in worlds I can only touch through the words of authors. And unfortunately, I don't know how to describe it. It's something you either know the feeling of, or you don't. ~ Rachel Hera

I am not alone. Something new and wonderful has transpired in my soul, around my aura; and goodness, it feels beyond amazing! I am smiling. I am smiling. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

Your trade becomes very much impacted by the quality of your life experiences and your capacity to process them. ~ Natasha Lyonne