#ness

He had the red serviette tucked into his t-shirt at the neck which made me laugh. He hadn’t done this since our third date when I had told him off for his bad manners. ↗

— Kate Chisman

#eating #laugh #love #relationships #together

I am so grateful for the many times God has shown me the mercy of not giving me what I want. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#grateful #gratitude #happiness #life #mercy

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. ↗

— Herman Melville

#devils #dignity #equals #hell #hell is

One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, / And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten / million years, / I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#self #self-awareness #equality

In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery. ↗

— Margaret George

#experience

My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness. It's Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you're trying to live up to but you're just using it against yourself as a reason why you're not okay. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#forgiveness #philosophy #experience

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#suffering #experience

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#sadness #experience

Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people, new places, different experiences and leave their own world stripped bare. It is there that bitterness begins irrevocable work. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#experience

A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness. Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#experience