#experience

Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character, and increase our compassion for others. ↗

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

#experience

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#growth #holy-spirit #self #experience

It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps. ↗

— Peter Straub

#terror #experience

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#caring #effort #experience #garden #gardener

I learn from experience. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#i #learn

I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#control #did #experiences #film #go

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#bad #experience #i #i can #most

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#always #because #been #diary #doing

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#being #completeness #course #desire #even

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#communicated #communication #experiences #other #poetry