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Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.


Aldous Huxley

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ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
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Then how would you love your...
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~WALT DISNEY Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us al...
JIM ROHN Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Don’t waste your time trying to impress others to satisfy their ego. do what you love & love what ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Do what you love doing.
JULIANNA MARGULIES You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL Freedom is what you do; circumstance is what happens to you.
MARTY RUBIN When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS... To do what you love can sometimes be stressful.
TONI BRAXTON I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
THADDEUS GOLAS What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
ELLEN GLASGOW What happens in you is more important than what happens to you.
IFEANYI ENOCH ONUOHA Being able to do what you wish is the best thing in the world!
SHIRO AMANO Do what you love and the money will follow.
MARSHA SINETAR What you do will project you
SOTONYE ANGA Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL What happens to other people does not necessarily will happen to you.
DANIEL MELGAçO Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.
PETER MCWILLIAMS We want to inform students what cheating is, what plagiarism is, and what happens if you do it.
KYLE MARTIN When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th...
CHLOE THURLOW Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA It is not what happens to you that counts. It is how you react to what happens to you. Learn and mas...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA What happens is you do not associate the sound with that. But you associate it with the shape of the...
JOE KETNER Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER Some business coaches may disagree with me, but I wholeheartedly teach my community to start busines...
KEVIN J. DONALDSON You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do.
TAYLOR LAUTNER If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.
MARC ANTHONY If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN Just do what you love. This is what I am doing.
ANGELIQUE KERBER If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
TOBA BETA In life, it is not a case of what you want but more like what you would like in a case of any decisi...
GARY F EVANS... As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you a...
KEN BLANCHARD Life is what happens to you while you
JOHN LENNON Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you...
LISA KLEYPAS We have experience. That's all. All you can say is we're not going to quit, no matter what happens.
JASON VARITEK See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS In life, what happens to you isn't as important as what happens in you.
ANON She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD The ultimate dream in life is to be able to do what you love and learn something from it.
JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT My philosophy has always been, 'do what you love and the money will follow.'
AMY WEBER Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
JUDY COLLINS You can't separate what happens to the animal from what happens to the people. Anyone who does not h...
JOANNE SCHOCH I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit w...
CHELSEA CLINTON Sooner or later, what you do will speak
SOTONYE ANGA Experience isn't as much about what happens to us as it is about how we react to what happens to us.
EDIE BAILEY It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible s...
WILFRID SELLARS FOOTBALL IS A DECISION GAME BASED ON QUICK THINKING IN RELATION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU AND ...
LERCHE NJANG The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to lif...
JOHN HOMER MILLER Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to lif...
KHALIL GIBRAN Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to lif...
KAHLIL GIBRAN The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.
CHRIS PRENTISS Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.
JOHN SCALZI Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you rea...
MIA HAMM You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY What happens is most plans aren't that great. You do the best you can with the choices.
DOUG FLYNN That's what happens when you know what they are going to do.
ANTONIO PIERCE Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you respond to it...
OLASOT Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.
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SUFJAN STEVENS When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani...
DAVE GROHL Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.
STEVE BACKLEY I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Happiness is not about what you do, it's about how you do what you do.
ROEL VAN SLEEUWEN No matter what happens to you, you do not have to be bitter. You deserve to be happy.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t...
CRISTIANO RONALDO you know what the best kind of organic certification would be? make an unannounced visit to a farm a...
MICHAEL POLLAN We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

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This chat will be in the...
DEYTH BANGER Life is what you make of it.
You have to decide what you want in life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA You are what you are, and what you are is not me!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on th...
T.H. WHITE “You can’t do what You ONLY never tried to do.”
MAGED MAHROUS What you do, say, and have reveal who you are.
LORRIN L. LEE Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Do what you love, and do it well - that's much more meaningful than any metric.
KEVIN SYSTROM What can you say? What happens, happens. It was my last game. We were so close. It's hard to think a...
EMILIE KNIGHT

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ALDOUS HUXLEY Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of o...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla...
ALDOUS HUXLEY At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva...
ALDOUS HUXLEY An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v...
ALDOUS HUXLEY So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
ALDOUS HUXLEY I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously bor...
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