#er

Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#experience

Beer has that Olympic medal color,” Rot replied, “but does it have a winning taste? I’d hardly call silver a champion flavor. No, I’ll stick to my red wine.”
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— Jarod Kintz

#drink #drinking #funny #gold #humor

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience. ↗

— Douglas Rushkoff

#books #reading #experience

Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#knowledge #language #trees #words #experience

Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family has betrayed you to your enemies, one of the most unpleasant experiences in life is a job interview. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#jobs #life #experience

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control. ↗

— John Lanchester

#love #worry #experience

One of life's challenging realizations is that sometimes you outgrow your friends. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#friends #outgrow #realizations #experience

Experience is the best teacher I've ever had. I'm sorry, Mr. Sortz, but it's true. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #teacher #experience

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#blame #correcting #error #fault #friendship

An empowered life begins with serious personal questions about oneself. Those answers bare the seeds of success. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #motivational #questions #seeds