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
  • Grateful
  • Experiences
  • 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

• Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Mind
  • Hatred
  • Affection

• Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence life events; a tendency to find meaningful purpose in life’s turmoil; and a conviction that they can learn from both positive and negative experiences.

  

  Amanda Ripley
  • Learn
  • Experiences
  • Resilience

• Robert Smigel is one of the greatest comedy writers in the last 50 years. "TV Funhouse" and Triumph and all those sketches. He's really unique, and he has an amazing comedy mind.

  

  Neal Brennan
  • Comedy
  • Unique
  • Writer

• When I play with the full band, you get to be larger than life, you feel larger than life, and that particular moment in the song where there's passion, you've got nine guys behind you, all driving that sound and that feeling with you. That's like surfing a huge wave, because once you start you really can't stop it, you got it going down a huge mountain.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Song

• I can't drive, so I don't need a flash car, and I like living at home, so I don't need a mansion. I'm sensible with money. It's not why I act.

  

  Georgia Groome
  • Need
  • Living
  • Act

• 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