#dom

Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better. ↗

— Bohdi Sanders

#excellence #good-books #happin #inspirational #inspirational-life

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words. ↗

— Deng Ming-Dao

#experience #holy-books #life #living #religion

Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage. ↗

— Scott Lynch

#wisdom #experience

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better. ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#knowledge #wisdom #experience

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness. ↗

— Sacha Guitry

#foolishness #wisdom #experience

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness. ↗

— Paul Twitchell

#climbs #consciousness #freedom #give #grant

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#opression #experience

And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future. ↗

— Lois Lowry

#wisdom #experience

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

Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time. ↗

— Emil Cioran

#ecstasy #ennui #time #experience