#experience

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of curse it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#experience #grief #mourning #others #personal-experience

The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#experience

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient. ↗

— Malcolm X

#personality #experience

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#astray #experience #gone #good #reach

Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment... Take THIS day, THIS moment and lead it to perfection. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#carpe-diem #day #happiness #life #moment

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. ↗

— Les Brown

#courage #dreams #experience #his #levels

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals. ↗

— David Levithan

#experience

Being close but feeling far, talking but not being heard, loving but not being loved, that is the painful reality of a dying relationship. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#love #relationships #experience

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career. ↗

— Sergei Bubka

#best #best time #career #experience #former

What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet been closed. He still experiences the moment he lives in. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#living #perception #experience