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It's a mistake to think that if we don't remember or don't acknowledge painful experiences they will just disappear. In fact, great damage is done to us by those phantoms and pieces of memories that swim around in the unconscious, the part of us that never forgets. Unpleasant experiences gain power over us by being denied or hidden, but they can be made to relinquish that power when they are brought out in the open. ~ Susan Forward
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Susan Forward
To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience. ~ Lizette Woodworth Reese
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Lizette Woodworth Reese
Nobody likes hard times, but it's the unpleasant experiences that are often the catalysts to build the character required for our destiny. ~ T.D. Jakes
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by T.D. Jakes
Oh, forgive me. Shaking hands with me is an unpleasant experience. My hands are no longer hands. ~ Crane Wilbur
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Crane Wilbur
Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences. ~ Nelson Mandela
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Nelson Mandela
We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. ~ Dalai Lama XIV
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Dalai Lama XIV
It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper. ~ Randy Schekman
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Randy Schekman
Migration was not the only unpleasant experience I went though. I was born and lived in a country ruled by a brutal dictator whose wars never ended, and from an early age I was passionate about understanding the world through knowledge. ~ Hassan Blasim
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Hassan Blasim
Much of the time the mind is wandering, either drawn to focus, ruminate, or push away unpleasant experiences, or chasing after stuff we like. But if we don't practise being still, we are prone to get blown about by every wind, buffeted by the ups and downs of life. By training to pay attention precisely and gently to the breath, coming back again and again, we cultivate a resilience that allows us to be present when difficulty and temptation arises. Distractions still come, but we don't get so lost in them. ~ Ed Halliwell
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Ed Halliwell
I think a lot of people are very good, but I don't think anybody could do my rhythm. I was thinking, "If you want my rhythm" - and when I was writing, I was writing them for myself - "why am I watching another actor doing what I should be doing?" It was just a really unpleasant experience. ~ Jake M. Johnson
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Jake M. Johnson
All of life's unpleasant experiences – when we make fools of ourselves, act thoughtlessly, or lapse in our observance of some virtue – should be regarded as mere external accidents which can't affect the substance of our soul. We should see them as toothaches or calluses of life, as things that bother us but remain outside us (even though they're ours), or that only our organic existence need consider and our vital functions worry about.

When we achieve this attitude, which in essence is that of the mystics, we're protected not only from the world but also from ourselves, for we've conquered what is foreign in us, contrary and external to us, and therefore our enemy.

Horace said* that the just man will remain undaunted, even if the world crumbles all around him. Although the image is absurd, the point is valid. Even if what we pretend to be (because we coexist with others) crumbles around us, we should remain undaunted – not because we're just, but because we're ourselves, and to be ourselves means having nothing to do with external things that crumble, even if they crumble right on top of what for them we are.

For superior men, life should, life should be a dream that spurns confrontations. ~ Fernando Pessoa
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Fernando Pessoa
The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one. ~ William James
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by William James
It was as if we were having two different conversations. Which wasn't that surprising after all, as we were clearly having two entirely different experiences of breaking up. His was soft, cushioned; Jude and his friends had broken his fall. Mine was cold, empty and bereft. I was freefalling in space and time, with nobody standing by to stop me hurtling headlong into obscurity. ~ Ruth Mancini
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Ruth Mancini
I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience. ~ Jay Roach
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Jay Roach
Climbing is so fun and such a good experience, that I think it's important not to take it too seriously. It's not the end of the world - or the entire world either. ~ Chris Sharma
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Chris Sharma
I've had some of the best and most traumatizing experiences at NBC. ~ Ashleigh Banfield
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Ashleigh Banfield
Fruits of the Spirit

GOODNESS and KINDNESS live in the hearts of those who have suffered greatly, as the wounded tend to learn compassion through their misery. GENTLENESS is born out of the adversity that has challenged a believer, but who has then released all hopes for vindication to the power of God. PEACE is a fruit that grows from seeds of trust. LOVE matures as we learn to give up pieces of ourselves for the benefit of others, knowing full well that every piece we loose is replaced by an even more wondrous portion of Christ. JOY comes from knowing God and experiencing His strength during trials. PATIENCE is learned through experiences of long-suffering and allows the saint to move forward on his earthy journey, while always longing for his real home in heaven. FAITHFULNESS means commitment. It is a sold-out attitude and stance that resonates a belief in God's unquestionable ability to do the impossible. Finally, the believer who suffers in the name of Christ for love's sake grows in SELF-CONTROL. With this final fruit, the temptations of the devil lesson and loose their power. We gain strength by gaining self-control. ~ Cheryl Zelenka
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Cheryl Zelenka
I have come to understand that the same action of unjustified escalation most often comes from one of two positions: Supremacy, or Trauma. And in realizing this, I am surprised by the similar behaviors expressed by these two divergent experiences. ~ Sarah Schulman
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Sarah Schulman
Deeply buried in the mind, there lies a mechanism that accepts what the mind experiences as beautiful and pleasant and rejects those experiences that are perceived as ugly and painful. This mechanism gives rise to those states of mind that we are training ourselves to avoid
things like greed, lust, hatred, aversion, and jealousy. ~ Henepola Gunaratana
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Henepola Gunaratana
Sure, I'm ashamed of a lot of the things I did, but at the same time, I wouldn't be the person I am today if I hadn't gone through those experiences. ~ Ricardo Antonio Chavira
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Ricardo Antonio Chavira
I love the shared experience of watching a movie with my kids. One of the great joys in life is when we're all laughing together, at the same thing. ~ Rob Letterman
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Rob Letterman
A belief in the validity of the acquisition of knowledge and a scientific understanding of the world we live in, the creation and appreciation of aesthetic phenomena in all their many forms, and the broadening and deepening of our range of experiences in day-to-day living, is rapidly becoming the 'religion' of our time. ~ Desmond Morris
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Desmond Morris
When people are unable to integrate their traumatic memories, they seem to lose their capacity to assimilate new experiences as well. It is as if their personality stops at a certain points and cannot enlarge any more by the addition or assimilation of new elements. Unless they become aware of the split off elements and integrate them into a story that had happened in the past but was now over, they would experience a slow decline in their personal and professional functioning. ~ Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter evenings. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Henry David Thoreau
I am a sick man ... I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased. However, I don't know beans about my disease, and I am not sure what is bothering me. I don't treat it and never have, though I respect medicine and doctors. Besides, I am extremely superstitious, let's say sufficiently so to respect medicine. (I am educated enough not to be superstitious, but I am.) No, I refuse to treat it out of spite. You probably will not understand that. Well, but I understand it. Of course I can't explain to you just whom I am annoying in this case by my spite. I am perfectly well aware that I cannot "get even" with the doctors by not consulting them. I know better than anyone that I thereby injure only myself and no one else. But still, if I don't treat it, its is out of spite. My liver is bad, well then
let it get even worse! ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences. ~ Thomas Hardy
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Thomas Hardy
...Alex found herself reading of emotions and experiences of which her own seemed so feeble a mockery, that she was conscious of a physical pang of sick disappointment.
Was all fiction utterly untrue to life? Or was hers the counterfeit, which the printed pages but reproduced something of a reality which was denied to her? ~ E.M. Delafield
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by E.M. Delafield
I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. ~ George Orwell
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by George Orwell
I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever. ~ Van Morrison
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Van Morrison
I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play, so I started to think like, 'Well if I'm going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct.' ~ Adam Rapp
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Adam Rapp
Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by George Bernard Shaw
All men are chums who will never leave each other in the lurch. A chum doesn't forgive, he just forgets - women forgive everything but never forget. Being forgiven is very unpleasant. ~ Tove Jansson
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Tove Jansson
My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life. ~ Sean Paul
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Sean Paul
To be sure, there exists in principle a quite simple economic mechanism that should restore equilibrium to the process: the mechanism of supply and demand. If the supply of any good is insufficient, and its price is too high, then demand for that good should decrease, which should lead to a decline in its price. In other words, if real estate and oil prices rise, then people should move to the country or take to traveling about by bicycle (or both). Never mind that such adjustments might be unpleasant or complicated; they might also take decades, during which landlords and oil well owners might well accumulate claims on the rest of the population so extensive that they could easily come to own everything that can be owned, including rural real estate and bicycles, once and for all.3 As always, the worst is never certain to arrive. It is much too soon to warn readers that by 2050 they may be paying rent to the emir of Qatar. ~ Thomas Piketty
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Thomas Piketty
My deha is different from yours. My hungers are different from yours. My assumptions are different from yours. My capabilities are different from yours. My experiences are diferent from yours. My expressions are different from yours. ~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Devdutt Pattanaik
A hurt mammal never forgets. Epigenetic theory suggests an almost Lamarckian transfer down the generations; some genes are activated by experiences, others are not. Genes, language, history: what it all meant in actual practice was that fear passed down through the years, altering organisms for generation after generation, thus altering the species. Fear, an evolutionary force. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Kim Stanley Robinson
Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called popular is fugitive in character, with less of the impersonal and intellectual characteristics of the schools. It is the work of talent nourished by personal experience and that of the community - rather than being taken from the experiences of painters in other times and other cultures. ~ Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Manuel Alvarez Bravo
The face in the bed seemed to deepen its expression of wild, but motionless distraction. Mrs Bolton looked at it and was worried. She knew what she was up against: male hysteria. She had not nursed soldiers without learning something about that very unpleasant disease. She ~ D.H. Lawrence
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by D.H. Lawrence
As a group, attachment-challenged children need to be looked at differently. This is a group of children who have experiences and fears of being separated from parent figures. Until they can rebuild some of their emotional security, their time in child-care must be restricted. ~ Deborah D. Gray
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Deborah D. Gray
The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day. ~ Bertrand Russell
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Bertrand Russell
While the bodies of young children are usually relaxed and flexible, if experiences of fear are continuous over the years, chronic tightening happens. Our shoulders may become permanently knotted and raised, our head thrust forward, our back hunched, our chest sunken. Rather than a temporary reaction to danger, we develop a permanent suit of armor. We become, as Chogyam Trungpa puts it, "a bundle of tense muscles defending our existence." We often don't even recognize this armor because it feels like such a familiar part of who we are. But we can see it in others. And when we are meditating, we can feel it in ourselves - the tightness, the areas where we feel nothing. ~ Tara Brach
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Tara Brach
No authority is wholly natural or native; when we're not borrowing from our neighbors, we're borrowing from our ancestors. One reason art tends to come from looking outward and not just inward is that we're always speaking from a shaky authority, even when narrating our own experiences - maybe especially when narrating just ourselves. ~ Rivka Galchen
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Rivka Galchen
Ive been blessed to be in a position to share (my experiences). ~ Ben Vereen
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Ben Vereen
There are various names for this 'Spirit of Life' because there are various life experiences. ~ Jurgen Moltmann
Unpleasant Experiences quotes by Jurgen Moltmann
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