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Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing narrow about the conservative philosophy. It's a liberating philosophy. It is a magnificent philosophy. It is a philosophy for the ages, for all times. ↗

— Mark R. Levin

#broad #conservatism #enduring #experience #magnificent

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#biggest #confidence #conscience #control #critic

Intrinsic values and qualities are age-free. For example, social competencies or a good heart. ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#etiquette #giving-advice #good-manners #life-coaching #life-experience

Reading books in one's youth is like looking at the moon through a crevice; reading books in middle age is like looking at the moon in one's courtyard; and reading books in old age is like looking at the moon on an open terrace. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#perception #age

Age brings maturity, experience ripens it. ↗

— Vimal Athithan

#experience-inspiration #life #maturity #age

And I said well luckily I was mature and old enough to take this success at my age. It was bullshit. ↗

— Nicholas Evans

#age

Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity. ↗

— Tamara Rose Blodgett

#death-series #self-realization #tamara-rose-blodgett #unrequited-death #age

People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#experience

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. ↗

— Nancy Banks Smith

#door #experience #extending #keep #lavatory

I have seen them stagger out of their movie palaces and blink their empty eyes in the face of reality once more, and stagger home, to read the Times, to find out what's going on in the world. I have vomited at their newspapers, read their literature, observed their customs, eaten their food, desired their women, gaped at their art. But I am poor, and my name ends with a soft vowel, and they hate me and my father, and my father's father, and they would have my blood and put me down, but they are old now, dying in the sun and in the hot dust of the road, and I am young and full of hope and love for my country and my times, and when I say Greaser to you it is not my heart that speaks, but the quivering of an old wound, and I am ashamed of the terrible thing I have done. ↗

— John Fante

#american-literature #immigrant-experience #immigrants #art