#peri

Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness... Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#experience

I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#cynical #felt #friends #had #i

In every ancient religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. It is in modern days that we have diluted faith from an act to a philosophy. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#faith #philosophy #religion #sacred #verb

Every great inspiration is but an experiment. ↗

— Charles Ives

#experiment #great #inspiration

It is love that transports us, that fills us with joy! Love turns life into one long adventure, every encounter is a dazzling experience - well, not always, of course, but in actual fact, it is our less successful love affairs that enable us to appreciate the others. I think love protects us from one of the biggest problems facing the modern world: boredom. ↗

— François Lelord

#experience

Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#charming #child #cute #every #forever

He was not so lucky. He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing the hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish when all else is fading, is the consoling belief in the inferiority of others. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#experience

Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#academy award #always #approach #award #been

Crystal skulls are a metaphor that reality is a consciousness hologram through which we experience virtually. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#crystal #crystal-skulls #quartz-crystal #quartz-skull #stephen-richards

In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street. ↗

— Charles Simic

#deconstruction #language #poetry #experience