#los

There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#philosophy #experience

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining. ↗

— N.K. Jemisin

#existence #philosophy #self #experience

Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christ #christianity #heaven #hell #jesus

Whatever life throws at me, I'll take with a smile upon my face and Nirvana's 'Bleach' on the stereo. ↗

— Mark R. Faulkner

#philosophical #experience

Whatever the response to loss and tragedy, the experience seems to boil down to one journey--searching for Jesus. ↗

— W. Scott Lineberry

#loss #search #tragedy #experience

Everything you know gained from experience ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#experience

The return and reintegration with society, which is indispensable to the continuous circulation of spiritual energy into the world, and which, from the standpoint of the community, is the justification of the long retreat, the hero himself may find the most difficult requirement of all. For if he has won through, like the Buddha, to the profound repose of complete enlightenment, there is danger that the bliss of this experience may annihilate all recollection of, interest in, or hope for, the sorrows of the world; or else the problem of making known the way of illumination to people wrapped in economic problems may seem too great to solve. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#experience

Life teach you lessons and those lessons are very painful. ↗

— Adnan Khan

#life-experience #life-lessons #life-philosophy #experience

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing. ↗

— Criss Jami

#composure #contentment #education #education-system #freedom