#less

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#however #less #love #may #rare

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.' Not only do the followers of Jesus renounce their rights, they renounce their own righteousness too. They get no praise for their achievements or sacrifices. They cannot have righteousness except by hungering and thirsting for it (this applies equally to their own righteousness and to the righteousness of God on Earth), always they look forward to the future righteousness of God, but they cannot establish it for themselves. Those who follow Jesus grow hungry and thirsty on the way. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#forgiveness #god #jesus #righteousness #equality

If there is anything unique about the human animal, it is that it has the ability to grow knowledge at an accelerating rate while being chronically incapable of learning from experience. ↗

— John Gray

#experience #life-lessons #wisdom #experience

The only thing suffering teaches us is that we are capable of suffering. ↗

— Melvin Jules Bukiet

#lessons #life #suffering #experience

There are some things you can’t learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life...the only college where everyone is a permanent student. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#learning #learning-from-mistakes #learning-process #life-experience #life-lessons

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through. ↗

— Jamaica Kincaid

#life-lessons #experience

Life is real, not ideal. ↗

— Heather Muzik

#keep-on-going #life #life-and-living #life-experience #life-lessons

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#life-and-living #life-experience #life-lessons #philosophy #experience

After losing my job, I felt the only options available to me were razors, cyanide, or a shot to the face, until Renaldo, being the good friend that he is, reminded me how to tie a noose.
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— Jarod Kintz

#friendship #guns #hanging #job #jobless

A great man will experience more failures than successes. If we lived for the successes, we would have all killed ourselves by now. ↗

— Andrew Sturm

#life-lessons #project #experience