#peri

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience. ↗

— Douglas Rushkoff

#books #reading #experience

Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#knowledge #language #trees #words #experience

Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family has betrayed you to your enemies, one of the most unpleasant experiences in life is a job interview. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#jobs #life #experience

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control. ↗

— John Lanchester

#love #worry #experience

One of life's challenging realizations is that sometimes you outgrow your friends. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#friends #outgrow #realizations #experience

Experience is the best teacher I've ever had. I'm sorry, Mr. Sortz, but it's true. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #teacher #experience

An empowered life begins with serious personal questions about oneself. Those answers bare the seeds of success. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #motivational #questions #seeds

I can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it - but I can never be on the inside of it with you. I cannot even be sure whether I really know what it is like. Is it 'like' my own? Or incomparable? Just as I can never know if what you see at any given moment is exactly the same as what I see. We look at a colour. We both call it red. But it is only because we have been taught to call it by that name. There is no guarantee - not ever - that we see it in the same way, that your red is my red. ↗

— André P. Brink

#experience

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#experience #vision #experience

I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the story--readers see an unknotting of sorts. Not what you expect, not the easy answers you get on TV, not wash and wear philosophies, but a reproduction of believable, emotional experiences. ↗

— Terry McMillan

#experience