#peri

Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#experience

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#anarchist #politics #experience

As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years. ↗

— Kit Bond

#chief #commander #did #enough #experience

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#deceit #deception #fable #fake #false

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. ↗

— Abigail Van Buren

#cost #could #experiences #millionaires #our

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#general #government #interferes #less #private

I didn't think; I experimented. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#i #think

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#experiencing #fear #focusing #happiness #hate

If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#difficult #difficult people #experience #kids #people

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#goes #instrument #learning #life #like