#esp

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. ↗

— William Blake

#any #builds #care #despair #ease

Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging about with a psychedelic drug for a Saturday night turn-on, and you can get into a really bad place, psychologically. Know what you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience. They're not addictive, and they're certainly not escapist, either, but they're exceptionally valuable tools for understanding the human mind, and how it works. ↗

— Alexander Shulgin

#escape #mind #responsibility #shulgin #experience

Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#friendship #love #opportunity #respect #friendship

There have been so many interpretations of the story that I'm not going to choose between them. Make your own choice. They contradict each other, the various choices. The only choice that really matters, the only interpretation of the story, if you want one, is your own. Not your teacher's, not your professor's, not mine, not a critic's, not some authority's. The only thing that matters is, first, the experience of being in the story, moving through it. Then any interpretation you like. If it's yours, then that's the right one, because what's in a book is not what an author thought he put into it, it's what the reader gets out of it. ↗

— William Golding

#experience

the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life. ↗

— Emil Cioran

#experience

[Thine] face is not worth sunburning. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#henry-v #shakespeare #funny

She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely? ↗

— Rachel Abbott

#life-experience #sadness #unhappiness #experience

Newt Gingrich, buddy, the people of the United States don’t like you. And the only reason the rest of the world doesn’t despise you is because they don’t know you. Thankfully you won’t have to experience that global derision, as you have reached the pinnacle of your career as a crook—I mean politician. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#corruption #creep #crook #crooked #despise

And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#despair #immortality #wisdom #death

To respect someone means to treat their ideas, personal space, belongings, and needs as equal in importance to your own, while to honor someone means to treat all those things as more important than your own. ↗

— Sarah Arthur

#honor #religion #respect #dating