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I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book, I feel like I am getting two years of life experiences.
- Mark Batterson
You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
- Maya Angelou
We have but one permanent home: heaven - that's still the old truth that we always have to re-learn - and it's only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.
- Anais Nin
We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences, but in our simple presence in life.
- Brennan Manning
It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Different presidents have different strengths, they bring different life experiences.
- Hillary Clinton
I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.
- Richard Paul Evans
The basic reason why erotic experiences outside of marriage create psychological strain is because the void between spirit and flesh is more closely felt.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
To understand that of any person, his whole life, from birth, must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
- Malcolm X
In Tin's already jaded view, experiences were what you got when you couldn't get what you wanted, but Jorrie had always been more optimistic than him.
- Margaret Atwood
The greatest things in life are not things.
- Rick Warren