#peri

God gives the exact experiences he wants them to have in order to shape the specific destiny he designed for them. ↗

— Steven Furtick

#experiences #faith #life-story #design

One thing you have to realize from now on is that it doesn't matter if this is a dream or not. Survival depends on what you do, not what you think. ↗

— Rebecca McKinsey

#life-experience #survival #thought-provoking #thoughts-on-life #dreams

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#life-experience #philosophy #wisdom #dreams

Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her. ↗

— Iain Pears

#dialectics #education #greatness #hypatia-of-alexandria #knowledge

Usually by this time in the summer, we were as worn in to one another as pebbles in a riverbed. For three months we’d had complete togetherness and not much outside stimuli. What few stories we had, we’d considered, analyzed, celebrated, cursed, and joked into sand. Tonight was different. I felt like we were each separate and full to our edges with our own stories, mostly unshared. In a way it scared me, having a summer of experiences and feelings that belonged to me alone. What happened in front of my friends felt real. What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by my own fears and wants. But who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#dreams

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#self #uniqueness #experience

Control of consciousness determines the quality of life. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#happiness #quality-of-life #experience

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#immaturity #inexperience #education

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#religion #spirituality #experience

God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#life #wisdom #experience