Lived Experience Quotes

“By caring to return persistently to our “lived experience” and revisiting and revising our understanding, we prevent the ossification of our perception. ("Drunken Sailor")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“When we calculate risks and incentives and align our desires with reality to achieve inner peace, we may reach self-mastery. Precision offers clarity and reduces insecurity. But we must not ignore the emotional bonds with the lived experience of love and joy. They often transcend metrics, preferring a balance between a rational approach and the priorities of our intuition. (“ Measuring space »)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“If mutual threads are hopelessly entangled in our abstract world, we must return to our lived experiences, recover a deep sense of meaning, and navigate the tension between feeling right and individuality. (“After Bowling Alone”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“... it didn't seem I could know it until I had lived it.”
― George Lamming, In the Castle of My Skin

“Life cannot be lived backwards. But our memories make up for that by making some moments truly unforgettable!”
― Avijeet Das

“You cannot understand someone whose life experience is only ever portrayed to you through movies.”
― Rohit Bhargava, Beyond Diversity

“On my drive home, I want to kick myself. For thinking I could just waltz in and demand answers. For thinking she'd stop feeling like the maid just because we were at her house, because she wasn't wearing a uniform.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid a month's worth a light bill for. I guess that's when I understood what shame was and the color of it too. Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“When we travel beyond the rushing surface of life, we can enter intentional time and feel the lived experience of now.( " Just for a moment")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The focus on lived experience by identity groups valorizes inner selves experienced emotionally rather than examined rationally. Notes one observer, “Our political culture is marked, at the micro level, by the fusion of a given person’s opinion and what they perceive to be their singular, permanent, and authentic self.” This privileges opinions sincerely held over reasoned deliberation that may force one to abandon those opinions. That an argument is offensive to someone’s sense of self-worth is often seen as sufficient to delegitimize it, a trend encouraged by the kind of short-form discourse propagated by social media.”
― Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment

“All I had was a wary belief that there were more things in heaven and earth, as the Bard said, that one could explain. And perhaps we were not meant to explain these, perhaps we were only meant to
experience these, live through them, and emerge, bearing on our bodies and our souls the carbuncles of the lived experience,
now fastened onto our selves.”
― Kiran Manral, More Things in Heaven and Earth