#peri

The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize things that way, the more likely it is that people will want to stay by me, because they will not feel burdened, consciously or unconsciously, by my projections, judgments, entitlements, or unrealistic expectations. ↗

— David Richo

#inspiration #love #philosophy #relationships #sociology

Sunset's Passions," he read, and opened the book to a random page to read aloud. "'His hands gently caressed her ivory, silky br- " His eyes widened. "By the Wyrd! Do you actually read this rubbish? What happened to Symbols of Power and Eyllwe Customs and Culture?" ... "You may borrow it when I'm done. If you read it, your literary experience will be complete. And," she added with a coy smile, "it will give you some creative ideas of things to do with your lady friends. ↗

— Sarah J. Maas

#experience

The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have. ↗

— Laurence Gonzales

#survival #experience

A mind that is stretched by new experiences can never go back to its old dimensions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#experience

It is not easy to learn much about love, but one thing I discovered, that Lady Harleigh taught me: it is not whom you love that is important, but only that we love. ↗

— Thomas Tryon

#love #romance #experience

Each of us needs periods in which our minds can focus inwardly. Solitude is an essential experience for the mind to organize its own processes and create an internal state of resonance. In such a state, the self is able to alter its constraints by directly reducing the input from interactions with others. (p. 235) ↗

— Daniel J. Siegel

#solitude #experience

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#suffering #experience

Yaşlanarak değil yaşayarak tecrübe kazanılır; zaman insanları değil, armutları olgunlaştırır ↗

— Peyami Safa

#experience

It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#psychology #experience

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain. She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly -the thought of the world's concern at her situation- was found on an illusion. She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#illusion #pain #tess-of-the-d-urbervilles #thomas-hardy #experience