#erie

Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences. ↗

— Rick Yune

#american #because #being #countries #cultures

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#best #economy #experience #fiscal #government

Uncomplicated, no strings sex makes you happy, love makes you miserable. ↗

— Spencer Waking the dead

#bbc-drama-series-waking-the-dead #love #love

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#experience #wisdom #youth #age

This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#life #age

Behold yon rough and flinty road Where youth, now youth no more, Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loaves He cast away of yore. ↗

— Emma Ghent Curtis

#experience #poem #poetry #poets #youth

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . . ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#emotion #experience #illusion #perception #art

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111) ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#mythology #spiritual-experience #spirituality #translation #art

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#art #enjoyment #experience #imposing #our

If she in fact knows magic she needs to do a spell to adjust that shitty attitude she has all of a sudden,” Nona said. “I may not be a witch, but I will knock her right off that broomstick if she keeps this up. ↗

— Holly Hood

#paranormal-romance #paranormal-series #attitude