#gr

To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#growing-up #death

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#am #america #experiment #going #grandiose

You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons. ↗

— Nina LaCour

#love #reason #regret #suicide #friendship

Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together. ↗

— John Green

#john-green #reading #together #experience

Beware: It is a quick transition from a nourishing sense of gratitude to a poisonous sense of entitlement. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#entitlement #grateful #gratitude #experience

He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. ↗

— Albert Camus

#idleness #retirement #time #death

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#pleasure #regret #experience

She had been living like a hermit herself, in a cramped, seedy apartment in Somerville, spending long hours in the lab. All-nighters had become a regular thing. She didn't have any close friends, didn't go out on dates, didn't even go to the movies by herself. She had sacrificed a normal life in order to get a PhD, and become a scientist. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#life #dating

What I want you to take away from my life story is just how important it is to defend your freedom, at all costs. Experience has shown me that if you lose your freedom, you are condemned to fail. ↗

— Leon Schgrin

#holocausts #leon-schagrin #the-horse-adjutant #experience

One of life's challenging realizations is that sometimes you outgrow your friends. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#friends #outgrow #realizations #experience