Quotes About Unpleasant Experiences

#1. 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

#2. It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

Nelson Mandela

#3. 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

#4. Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is what an earthquake is like,' and it gives them pleasure to have their knowledge of the world increased by this new item.

Bertrand Russell

#5. Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family has betrayed you to your enemies, one of the most unpleasant experiences in life is a job interview.

Lemony Snicket

#6. The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.

S. N. Goenka

#7. Do you want to know the easiest way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences of someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Richard Bandler

#8. We have Kenjii. We have my cell phone. Since we aren't officially dating, I'm sure you'll agree that's all the protection we need.

Kelley Armstrong

#9. Sinners judging sinners for sinning differently.

Sui Ishida

#10. I've been here playing against Connors and it can be very, very loud. It makes it exciting at the same time.

Stefan Edberg

#11. Develop a mind that is vast like space, where experiences both pleasant and unpleasant can appear and disappear without conflict, struggle or harm. Rest in a mind like vast sky.

Gautama Buddha

#12. Fellowship" is a Christianspeak for "flirt with unsuccessfully".

Kevin Roose

#13. On average, Americans eat the equivalent of 21,000 entire animals in a lifetime - one

Jonathan Safran Foer

#14. I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.

Hanif Kureishi

#15. Do I believe in God? I did until Mother's accident. She fell on some meat loaf and it penetrated her spleen.

Woody Allen

#16. We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.

Sharon Salzberg

#17. Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

Ben Whishaw

#18. He was intelligent and healthy, but decent to a point that crippled him as a master of his home or an accumulator of wealth. Madelaine had once characterized him as standing on the edge of the mainstream of life, smiling and saying, "Pardon me," "After you,"and "No, thank you.

Karen Russell

#19. I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

Anthony Hopkins

#20. It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper.

Randy Schekman

#21. To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.

Lizette Woodworth Reese

#22. My parents couldn't be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.

Charlie Trotter

#23. In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity.

David A. Bednar

#24. My mind took up a chant. Hurt me, hurt me, hurt me. Make me hurt, cry, bleed. Make my outside match my inside. Help me get it out, because I can't cry on my own

Amber Lin

#25. Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

Mel Gibson

#26. One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

Mark Twain