Shared Experiences Quotes

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Mya Robarts
You usually can’t recall all the people you’ve shared laughs with. But you rarely forget the people you’ve shared your tears with.
Mya Robarts, The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story

“That night as they slept in each other's arms neither Alistair nor Sophia had any nightmares.”
Cristiane Serruya, Trust: A New Beginning

Holly Bourne
“Because there’s nothing more comforting than someone who actually gets it. Really gets it. Because they’ve been to the same hell as you have and can verify you’ve not made it up.”
Holly Bourne, Am I Normal Yet?

“Yes, overcomplexity can be used to obfuscate,
but oversimplicity makes it impossible to find commonalities,
shared points of entry, experiences,
values, meaning.”
Shellen Lubin

“Becoming free is learning about yourself; the scared and the insecure, the brilliant and the bold. Embrace both and the journey is yours and yours alone. No longer are you following another’s directions and your path and purpose will present themselves. Only then might you find another wandering soul doing the same thing, who can walk with you but on their own journey. All of a sudden you might find a shared passion and a wrinkled map on the trail that makes sense.”
Riitta Klint

Anne Perry
“It was not something you could call friendship; it was at once less and more. The sharing of such experiences created a bond and set them apart from all others. It was not something that could be told to another person. There were no words with a meaning both could understand which would impart the physical horror or the heights and depths of emotion.”
Anne Perry, A Sudden, Fearful Death

Gina Greenlee
“When we establish human connections within the context of shared
experience we create community wherever we go.”
Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Ann Napolitano
“You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it.”
Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

Bryant McGill
“We must resist impulses to attack people, their credibility or their nature, and focus only on sharing our own positive creations, contributions, ideas and solutions.”
Bryant McGill

“The one who can share will always have a advantage in Life.”
Jan Jansen Easy Branches

“Our art is never really ours. Each person who experiences it brings to it a piece of themselves and reacts to it in ways that stem from their personal struggles, beliefs, morals, and even hang-ups.”
Teresa R. Funke, Bursts of Brilliance for a Creative Life blog

Luis Alberto Urrea
“He believed he was celebrating them when he shared stories of their foibles. He felt the burden of being their living witness. Somehow the silliest details of their days were, to him, sacred. And he believed that if only the dominant culture could see these small moments, they would see their own human lives reflected in the other.”
Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels

Steven Magee
“I independently produce scientific advancements to share with everyone, and that is over seven billion people!”
Steven Magee

Avijeet Das
“When I met her, she was going through a depression in life. She was not able to find her purpose in life. She would smile on the outside, but inside she was going through myriad difficulties.

I don't know what it was about me that made her tell me about her thoughts.

May be she felt that I could understand her. Writers and poets are expected to understand the perspectives of other people. And I was a writer and wanderer, never staying at one place for long.”
Avijeet Das

Tif Marcelo
“If this had been last week, she would have taken a picture of this closet and then slumped into a chair and spent too much time composing a message to accompany it. Now, she had neither the time nor the emotional bandwidth to do it.”
Tif Marcelo, Once Upon a Sunset

“You must have someone in your circle who you can bounce off your ideas without being dissuaded.”
Lynn Ujiagbe

Sebastián Wortys
“English: "Translation is needed even within what mistakenly appears to us like one language."

Česky: „Překládat je potřeba i v rámci toho, co se nám mylně zdá jako jeden jazyk.”
Sebastián Wortys

Sebastián Wortys
“English: "Misunderstanding also arises from the assumption that people understand each other."

Česky: „Nedorozumění vzniká i z domněnky, že si lidé rozumí.”
Sebastián Wortys

Cat Sebastian
“Sometimes you want to look at a guy and say: Well, he’s fucked, but he’s trying.”
Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

Kailey Bright
“We shared a history without ever crossing paths.”
Kailey Bright, Unity