#erie

In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed. ↗

— Robert Fanney

#persistence #work #experience

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#myth #pretension #sardonic #experience

If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#gas #happiness #inspirational #journey #life

Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#life-and-living #life-experience #life-lessons #motivational-quotes #experience

.... most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#security #experience

He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not'. ↗

— Mark Twain

#irony #wit #experience

Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I am writing you this letter, or what this letter is supposed to be about, but I am writing it nonetheless, because I love you very much and trust that you have some good purpose for having me write this letter. I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love. Your father ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#letter #understand #experience

what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you. ↗

— Mark Twain

#experience

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. ↗

— Henry Ford

#experience

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. ↗

— John Berger

#psychology #suffering #experience