#age

You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary. ↗

— Tasha Alexander

#horror #numbness #terror #tragedy #experience

Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling catches and magnifies so rapidly that it threatens to engulf me. ↗

— Julie Andrews Edwards

#onstage #experience

We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#encourage #programs #use #yet

I just wouldn’t want to hook up with a guy unless I really, really like him, and in my experience all boys can be classified as either assholes or bores, unless they’re both. Maybe it’s a blessing, because the last thing I need is relationship drama to sidetrack me from my grades. ↗

— Daria Snadowsky

#boyfriend #love #relationships #teenage-love #experience

Why do people kill themselves? I think they do it when they can no longer find a reason to keep going. When nothing in heir lives is good enough to balance out the bad. And they do it when they no longer have the courage to carry on past some recent painful experience. They commit what is, in the end, a desperate, final call for help, that is hopefully heard in time by someone else. And what if it's not heard in time? I ask although I know the answer. Then they die. ↗

— Mary Beth Miller

#suicide #why #courage

Even trained for years as we all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine. ↗

— Lois Lowry

#sunshine #wisdom #experience

Sometimes the comfort of being in a relationship lulls you into mundane complacency; you become irrelevant in each other’s lives. We call this phenomenon 'growing apart'. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #love #marriage #relationship

Whatever it was that people experience in Jesus has today come to be identified with medieval doctrines based on premodern assumptions that are no longer believable. That identification means that serious theological discussion seems to accomplish little more than to erect a division between the shouters and the disinterested. Jesus becomes the captive of the hysterically religious, the chronically fearful, the insecure and even the neurotic among us, or he becomes little more than a fading memory, the symbol of an age that is no more and a nostalgic reminder of our believing past. To me neither option is worth pursuing. Yet even understanding these things, I am still attracted to this Jesus and I will pursue him both relentlessly and passionately. I will not surrender the truth I believe I find in him either to those who seek to defend the indefensible or to those who want to be freed finally from premodern ideas that no longer make any sense. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#age

What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any negative character trait will be intensified in a marriage relationship, because you will feel free to let your guard down -- that person has committed himself to you and you no longer have to worry about scaring him off. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#marriage-life #relationships #dating

...learning always occurs in a context of taking action, and they value engagement and experience as the most effective strategies for deep learning. ↗

— Richard DuFour

#learning #experience