#peri

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about. ↗

— Aretha Franklin

#alien #anything #because #could #experienced

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#field #get #more #only #politics

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. ↗

— John Dewey

#changing #comes #each #endeavor #experience

People usually seek to join a religious system in order to gain the eternal bliss and freedom of the soul. But belonging somewhere; anywhere is not freedom. Free is the wind. You need to become the wind, not wanting to know how and why, but only to experience this quality of freedom that leads to the original “religion”. There the soul is finally ONE and aligned with anything. ↗

— Grigoris Deoudis

#eternal #freedom #people #religiois #soul

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#actually #becomes #choosing #close #experience

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#experience #go #good #i #indignity

I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#been #funny #half #i #i am

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#educational #every #follows #fresh #little

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#every #experience #how #including #man

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail. ↗

— George Orwell

#though #war #wound #experience