Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

Henry Ward Beecher

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• All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Way

• I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Me
  • Songs
  • Special

• Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Criticism
  • Experiences

• Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Experiences

• Well, I'm grateful for all the experiences that I've had.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Experiences
  • Grateful
  • Well

• My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Parents
  • Compassion
  • Affection

• New experiences give you new perspectives on life.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • You
  • Experiences

• If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Me
  • Equal
  • Affection

• We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Different
  • Night

• The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Love
  • Feel
  • For Her

• What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Mind
  • Experiences
  • Someone

• All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Experiences

• The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Friends
  • Affection
  • Test

• I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Living
  • More
  • Experiences

• When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Fear
  • For Him

• I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Characters
  • Experiences
  • Pattern

• 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
  • Positive
  • Influence
  • Experiences

• I get my inspiration from everyday life, things people my age are going through in life, good and bad experiences.

  

  Manika
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • King
  • Learned
  • Experiences

• Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Christian
  • Slavery
  • Nations

• I get a lot of questions about hair color. People are very into talking about hair.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Questions
  • Hair color

• People look at me as spiritual... but I am also very logical, very business-minded. The two come together.

  

  Shari Arison
  • People
  • Together
  • Spiritual

• The digital asset that matters is trust. Awareness first, then interaction, and maybe a habit, but all three mean nothing if they don't lead to permission and trust. The privilege of connection. Everything else is slippery.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Habit
  • Awareness
  • Connections

• Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Experiences
  • Affection
  • Realm