#peri

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#anxiety #beneath #constantly #english #englishman

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#experience #i #know #like #who

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#because #commitment #energy #experience #invest

I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole. ↗

— Robert Barany

#co-operate #convinced #experiment #humanity #i

As we experience this love, there is a temptation at times to become hostile to our earlier understandings, feeling embarrassed that we were so "simple" or "naive," or "brainwashed" or whatever terms arise when we haven't come to terms with our own story. These past understandings aren't to be denied or dismissed; they're to be embraced. Those experiences belong. Love demands that they belong. That's where we were at that point in our life and God met us there. Those moments were necessary for us to arrive here, at this place at this time, as we are. Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new. ↗

— Rob Bell

#love #past #experience

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. ↗

— George Will

#experience #hope #know #marriage #over

When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfort of such an experience by asserting control over someone else. ↗

— A. Nicholas Groth

#psychology #experience

Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#marriage #time #experience

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories. ↗

— Eric Brown

#between #book #day #five #garden

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. ↗

— James Buchan

#good #history #must #naturally #passions