#iona

Failure gives the bald hairs; equips the novice with experience. The learner, sooner or later, becomes a teacher by it. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#inspirational #motivational #the-fortune-in-failing #experience

Although we look at ourself as One, in the real world we always experience ourself as TWO. ↗

— Joey Lawsin

#experience

Nobody steals books but your friends. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#friendship #inspirational #irony #stealing #friendship

Once out of your cradle, you don't focus on the world in the abstract, perceiving things for the first time, but in synchrony with your accumulated knowledge, which enriches and helps define your experience, as well as ensuring its uniqueness. ↗

— Winifred Gallagher

#consciousness #focus #rationalism #experience

He has a plan for everybody here and it’s all a matter of whether you answer it when He calls you. ↗

— Lacey Mosley

#flyleaf #god #inspirational #jesus #life

Defensiveness is usually someone silently screaming that they need you to value and respect them in disguise. When you look for deeper meanings behind someone’s pain you can then begin to heal not only yourself but others. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#compassion #defensiveness #emotional-pain #forgiveness #anger

He stole glances at the heathen faces of Bodien and Gaylord, the suffering, yet oddly consoled, eyes and mouth of Basellecci, noting the brave enthusiasm of men who had never dreamed of anything very definite, and it occurred to him through the reek of his person that there was only one hope for him, and for all people who had lost, through intelligence, the hope of immortality. "We must love and delight in each other and in ourselves!" he cried. ↗

— Edward Lewis Wallant

#life #philosophy #religion #spiritual #dreams

Best wishes for an adventurous life. Remember if you veer from that road-less traveled, take your dreams, hold them tight and keep pressing on until you're there…no matter how treacherous or tormenting that path may be. ↗

— Carol Gambill

#dreams

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men and sealeth their instruction, that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. ↗

— Job

#dreams

It helps to have dreams if you pursue them in reality. ↗

— Wayne L. Misner

#dreams