#experience

In your own life it's important to know how spectacular you are. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#self-empowerment #self-esteem #self-love #experience

Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#relationships #experience

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words. ↗

— Deng Ming-Dao

#experience #holy-books #life #living #religion

The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#heaven #life #experience

I was head over heels in love with her. No, that didn’t describe it. I was tear my fucking heart out and throw it at her, beg her to take it into hers. I was falling from the greatest heights with no safety net below. I was giving everything of my own life for hers, giving up every inch of my soul so she could wear it proudly. I was a former king on my knees in front of the queen. A jester begging for a chance. I was powerless, helpless and at her mercy. ↗

— Karina Halle

#experience

No time for foreplay?” I teased breathlessly. His smile was sly. “Oh, we’ve had nothing but foreplay from the day we first met. ↗

— Karina Halle

#experiment-in-terror #perry #experience

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. ↗

— Alan Keightley

#influence #truth #experience

I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her trainers must have thrilled when the mother, without prompting, began to sign her newborn. Baby, drink milk. Baby, play ball. And when the baby died, the mother stood over the body, her wrinkled hands moving with animal grace, forming again and again the words: Baby, come hug, Baby come hug, fluent now in the language of grief. ↗

— Amy Hempel

#experience

The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I’ve been for weeks, as if something has been given back after a long absence, as if my eyes have opened once again. For this time at least, I’ve let myself be rooted in the unshakable sanity of the senses, spared my mind the burden of too much thinking, turned myself outward to experience the world and inward to savor the pleasures it has given me. ↗

— Richard Nelson

#mountains #nature #experience

You only realise how small your world is, once you start to make it bigger ↗

— Haanim Galvaan

#experience