#pa

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

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#distress #jesus #pain #experience

Old religious dogma attempts to convince you that you are on a journey to God, then makes you pay tolls along that roadway. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#god #journey #pay-tools #religion #roadway

And Big Night, I think by the end the brothers find that balance, when they touch each other on the shoulder over breakfast and it's understood that what should never have driven them apart almost drove them apart. I think that's a true moment. ↗

— Tony Shalhoub

#apart #balance #big #big night #breakfast

Patience and persistence are the keys... The keys to unlock doors of success... With these two virtues, you grow in reasoning and experience. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#patience #persistence #reasonin #success #virues

There was polite laughter in the courtroom. Bosch noticed that the attorneys -- prosecution and defense -- dutifully joined in, a couple of them overdoing it. It had been his experience that while in open court a judge could not possibly tell a joke that the lawyers did not laugh at. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#opportunism #pandering #power #experience

We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda. ↗

— Silvan Shalom

#call #ease #i #life #like

Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#space #time #experience

And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#despair #immortality #wisdom #death

But what the long walk had not done was reveal the cause of the inherent distaste that had sprung out of nowhere overtaking her there under the tree. On the cold, damp grass, or up against the rough tree trunk. He had done it many times without a second thought, and in more challenging situations. It would have been nothing at all to wrap her long legs around his waist, brace one hand against the tree trunk, hold her tight with his other arm, and give the lady exactly what she wanted. But for some reason he had not been able to do it. For the first time in his life, his body had been willing but his mind had not. Labeling the experience unpleasant would be a severe understatement. ↗

— Evangeline Collins

#gideon-honey #her-ladyship-s-companion #experience