#peri

Going public was a difficult decision, and I had misgivings. My subjective experience was now an objective fact in the wider world. It didn't belong to just me anymore - though I quickly learned that it hadn't belonged to just me in the first place. More than a million Americans and their families were going through the same thing; some openly, some in secret due to concerns of being misunderstood and marginalized. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#life #sickness #experience

Biking and love do not make sense without your personal experience ↗

— Anatoliy Obraztsov

#spiritality #wisdom #experience

The image of God is your final obstruction to a religious experience. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#spirituality #experience

Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life ↗

— Lynette Gould

#guilt #healing #incest #memories #rape

Being with you today is worth all the broken hearts of yesterday. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #love #relationships #true-love #experience

You express the truth of your character with the choice of your actions. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#character #choices #truth #experience

Self-love isn’t always so poetic; sometimes it’s a nice big triple back flip kick in the ass. You’ve got to call yourself on your own nonsense; on the incredibly efficient way you can be self-destructive. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #poetry #self-destructive #self-love #success

Sometime people are disempowered because they subconsciously identify themselves by their temporary circumstances instead of connecting with their innate value and truth. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#truth #value #experience

The new day has greeted us with no rules except for the rules we placed with it, greet it with open arms and endless possibility. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #new-day #possibility #rules #experience

They are so caught up in their happiness that they don't realize I'm not really a part of it. I am wandering along the periphery. I am like the people in the Winslow Homer paintings, sharing the same room with them but not really there. I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that's not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood. . . . There are moments I just sit in my frame, float in my tank, ride in my car and say nothing, think nothing that connects me to anything at all. ↗

— David Levithan

#loneliness #misunderstood #not-belonging #peripheral #unnoticed