Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.
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Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.
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Well, I'm grateful for all the experiences that I've had.
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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.
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New experiences give you new perspectives on life.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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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.
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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.
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What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.
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All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.
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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.
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I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I get my inspiration from everyday life, things people my age are going through in life, good and bad experiences.
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The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.
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I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.
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O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.
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Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.
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Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.
