#diction

Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow ↗

— Larry Michael Dredla

#inspirational #life-experience #experience

Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed.... ↗

— Ammon Shea

#phone-book #telephone-directory #dating

Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opes a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space. ↗

— Melvin Burgess

#drugs #experience

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#modern-life #modern-society #modernity #modernity-is-a-sickness #slavery

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#christian-behavior #family #family

Cruel Harvest by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a memoir that will touch your heart. ↗

— Fran Elizabeth Grubb

#child-abuse #family #kidnapped #self-help-books #family

There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can. ... There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of desires. ↗

— Mark Epstein

#buddhism #desire #freedom #suffering #transcendence

As I make my way through, I feel okayness reaching through me. The funny thing is that okayness is not a real word. It's not in the dictionary. But it's in me. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#it-s-in-me #okayness #real-word #funny

Joy, not sorrow. Laughter, not tears. Life, not death. Love, not blame. ↗

— Lisa Schroeder

#optimism #positivism #death

A king who’s innocent of the things of which he’s guilty? ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#humor #king #humor