Lived Experience Quotes

“Since I was working on myself, with all my emotional problems and my mental health – I’m actually in a really good place right now.”
― Jamie Kershaw, Hurricane to a Rainbow: Anxiety, PTSD, BPD, Autistic Spectrum, and Schizophrenia

“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

“People do suffer – so remember to be kind.”
― Jamie Kershaw, Hurricane to a Rainbow: Anxiety, PTSD, BPD, Autistic Spectrum, and Schizophrenia

“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

“I do believe I should have been treated better – with respect, loyalty, honour, and trust.”
― Jamie Kershaw, Hurricane to a Rainbow: Anxiety, PTSD, BPD, Autistic Spectrum, and Schizophrenia

“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

“A various set of symptoms which are all part of the human condition.”
― Jamie Kershaw, Hurricane to a Rainbow: Anxiety, PTSD, BPD, Autistic Spectrum, and Schizophrenia

“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

“I don’t think you can actually do anything without emotion.”
― Jamie Kershaw, Hurricane to a Rainbow: Anxiety, PTSD, BPD, Autistic Spectrum, and Schizophrenia

“My current state is better by far than I could ever have imagined when I was a teenager.”
― Jamie Kershaw, Hurricane to a Rainbow: Anxiety, PTSD, BPD, Autistic Spectrum, and Schizophrenia

“These days I am more accepting of it, and get on with my life as best as possible.”
― Jamie Kershaw, Hurricane to a Rainbow: Anxiety, PTSD, BPD, Autistic Spectrum, and Schizophrenia

“There has to be some self-respect to make your own decision in life.”
― Jamie Kershaw, Hurricane to a Rainbow: Anxiety, PTSD, BPD, Autistic Spectrum, and Schizophrenia

“Education and creative stuff really, really helped me.”
― Jamie Kershaw, Hurricane to a Rainbow: Anxiety, PTSD, BPD, Autistic Spectrum, and Schizophrenia

“Not at all, it could be just the beginning of a new way of life!”
― Jamie Kershaw, Hurricane to a Rainbow: Anxiety, PTSD, BPD, Autistic Spectrum, and Schizophrenia

“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

“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

“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

“Doubts are a natural part of human thought and should not be feared.”
― Jamie Kershaw, Hurricane to a Rainbow: Anxiety, PTSD, BPD, Autistic Spectrum, and Schizophrenia

“Some prayers are lived, not spoken.”
― Lawrence Nault

“Simulation without experience is delusion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“You can 3d print furniture,
but you cannot 3d print art -
and alas, only a true artist
can know what this means!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Objectivity is an impediment to understanding - if you yourself are not right smack in the middle of the experience, you have zero grasp of the truth, even if your head is full with facts and figures.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“We do not like to be ‘labelled,’ we have feelings, thoughts and direction in life.”
― Jamie Kershaw, Hurricane to a Rainbow: Anxiety, PTSD, BPD, Autistic Spectrum, and Schizophrenia

“Circuits to Break (Sonnet 2940)

Asked a beggar, what is happiness?
"Piece of bread," he said.
Asked a king, what is happiness?
"More territory," he said.

Asked a fanatic, what is happiness?
"More converts," he said.
Asked a scientist, what is happiness?
"More prestige," they said.

Asked a politician, what is happiness?
"Another term," they said.
Asked a farmer, what is happiness?
"Abundant rain," they said.

Asked a soldier, what is happiness?
"To see my kid grow up," they said.
So I went and asked in the mirror,
what is happiness?

The mirror cracked with a roar:
you're not a philosopher you idiot,
don't waste life inflating your ego
with elitist armchair analysis
like some overfed aristocratic twit,
you have a planet to unify -
peoples to unite, circuits to break.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“The path of life is rarely straight and true but it's always worth staying on, for you”
― Karl E. Loxton, Mindful Reflections

“Doors can seem impossible to open but with perseverance doors will open for you”
― Karl E. Loxton, Mindful Reflections

“However you fly through life make sure you are in control of your flight direction”
― Karl E. Loxton, Beyond The Gate (a journey in 100 quotes)

“A challenge is really just a bigger opportunity and reason to believe”
― Karl E. Loxton, Beyond The Gate (a journey in 100 quotes)

“Recovery is not about returning to you; it’s about finding what you need to recover your soul!”
― Karl E. Loxton, A Short Sentence