Eve Ensler Quotes

I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you're watching something you do make somebody happy, that's when happiness happens.

Eve Ensler

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• College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Experience
  • Black
  • College

• Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Life
  • Money
  • Love

• Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Real
  • Love
  • Experience

• Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Judgment

• When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Children
  • Home
  • Happy

• What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • World
  • Experience
  • Energy

• To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • World
  • Experience

• Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Remember
  • Giving

• It's an amazing experience to work with Hrithik. He is one of the finest actors, and there is a reason for it. He is extremely hardworking and fully dedicated.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Money
  • Happiness

• Don't squander beautiful moments by always trying to snap the perfect picture or record the event on film. Sometimes it's better to watch things as they happen with your own eyes, knowing that the memory of the experience will always be with you.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Beautiful

• Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

  

  Basil Hume
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Die

• My pledge is to be part of the solution to focus on governing, to put my experience to work to help solve the very serious issues we're facing in this country.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Work
  • Country
  • Experience

• Global warming is my personal experience.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Experience
  • Global Warming

• 'Kit Kittredge' was an amazing experience because I got to go to Canada, and it was my first 'era' film, so I got to wear the 1930s clothes, the real vintage clothes.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Said

• I've always enjoyed shopping and loved fashion, but my interest as an entrepreneur was definitely more about the opportunities I saw to change the future of retail. My sister was a buyer in New York, and she knew my body and my style, and she could find me things I loved. I thought, 'What if everybody had access to this kind of experience?'

  

  Katrina Lake
  • She
  • Experience
  • Future

• A leader's job is not just to get the best out of their people-a leader's job is to make more leaders.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Jobs
  • Leader

• Like Barack Obama's father, Trump's mother was an immigrant. But Trump doesn't often bring up his Scottish ancestry on the campaign trail.

  

  Mary Pilon
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Father

• It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Soul
  • Individual
  • Given

• I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you're watching something you do make somebody happy, that's when happiness happens.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Experience
  • Happiness
  • Goods