#peri

We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #living-now #mistakes #motivational #regret

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain. ↗

— William Faulkner

#poetry #sorrow #experience

only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#openness #relationships #experience

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#experience

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#experience

How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun." Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-angel #experience

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#experience

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#experience

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. ↗

— Victoria Holt

#never-regret #experience

Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be…So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one’s mind. ↗

— Matthew Quick

#experience