#he

You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation. ↗

— John Green

#failure #side-effects #van-houten-being-a-douche #experience

I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#fear #health #inspirational #motivational #poison

When you're too religious, you tend to point your finger to judge instead of extending your hand to help. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#help #judgement #religious #experience

Experience teaches only the teachable. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#only #teaches

Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#christ #christianity #christmas #clothe #enemies

When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o' clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciating-ly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. ↗

— William Faulkner

#experience

A lot of the conflict you have in your life exists simply because you're not living in alignment; you're not be being true to yourself. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #inspirational #life #self-knowledge #true-to-yourself

We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#bombings #children #danger #england #evacuation

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#experience

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#between #bodies #connections #experience #fabric