#peri

And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#inspirational #experience

I didn't know a van could go up on two wheels like that, for so long." -Nudge ↗

— James Patterson

#maxride #nudge #experience

We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#death #experience #relationships #death

Xenial' is a word which refers to the giving of gifts to strangers. . . . I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee that I'm a good person. . . . But it does mean I've read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#experience

The counterculture has nothing to do with Dolce & Gabbana having a 'Hippy Summer' or something. Street kids, and kids who want to live in any sort of counter-cultural experience other than what's being presented by the mainstream media or political climate, or 'normal' cultural climate, are never going to look like that. ↗

— Chris Robinson

#any #being #climate #cultural #experience

Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice to be generative in other ways can at last be made, and is being made by many women now, without guilt. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#experience

We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#love #experience

If your boundary training consists only of words, you are wasting your breath. But if you 'do' boundaries with your kids, they internalize the experiences, remember them, digest them, and make them part of how they see reality. ↗

— Henry Cloud

#parenting #experience

If you feel irritated or threatened by others' beliefs, it's a sign that you're experiencing crisis of confidence. ↗

— Toba Beta

#crisis-of-confidence #experience #irritation #experience

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything ↗

— Charles Dickens

#surprise #experience