#erie

Love encompasses so much, reaches so far, and heals so deeply, that any attempt to describe it, no matter how poetic, only dilutes it. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#heals #love #poetic #relationships #soul-mates

You have to store up books, becoming acquainted with human experience; let them lie around your thoughts, becoming yours—ring upon ring, as a tree grows, let them rise up from the depths like coral islands. If it gets crowded with all the books and there's nowhere to put your bed, it's better to exchange it for a folding bed ↗

— Viktor Shklovsky

#book-loving #experience

The eraser ↗

— James Patterson

#experience

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough ↗

— Carlos Luiz Zafon

#experience #wisdom #experience

I know. Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower, or a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is a - it, uh, it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible, it should be, um, smelly. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#experience #humour #knowledge #smell #experience

Is it possible that future generations will regard our present agribuisness and eating practices in much the same way we now view Nero's entertainments or Mengele's experiments? My own initial reaction is that such a comparison is hysterical, extreme - and yet the reason it seems extreme to me appears to be that I believe animals are less morally important than human behings; and when it comes to defending such a belief, even to myself, I have to acknowledge that (a) I have an obvious selfish interest in this belief, since I like to eat certain kinds of animals and want to be able to keep doing it, and (b) I haven't succeeded in working out any sort of personal ethical system in which the belief is truly defensible instead of just selfishly convenient. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#animal-rights #ethics #morals #experience

What makes and experience a memory is when we share with someone, the emotions we felt ↗

— Jeremy Aldana

#life #memory #experience

I’m just saying it doesn’t always have to be spirits and magic. Sometimes hauntings are in your mind. It doesn’t make them less real. ↗

— Kendare Blake

#life-lessons #madness #experience

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#experience

Title: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? Only verse: Nothing. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#experience