#rat

What the State can usefully do is to make itself a central depository, and active circulator and diffuser, of the experience resulting from many trials. Its business is to enable each experimentalist to benefit by the experiments of others, instead of tolerating no experiments but its own. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#toleration #business

Failure gives the bald hairs; equips the novice with experience. The learner, sooner or later, becomes a teacher by it. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#inspirational #motivational #the-fortune-in-failing #experience

The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles. ↗

— John Masefield

#separation #friendship

Although we look at ourself as One, in the real world we always experience ourself as TWO. ↗

— Joey Lawsin

#experience

Yet I knew this was one of those experiences for me that made you grow as a person. This was one of those times that made you put things in perspective and appreciate everything you had. ↗

— Keary Taylor

#experience

I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#feeling #human #human-nature #humanism #humanity

<...> though he found that if you are stupid enough to bury a camera underground you won't be taking many pictures with it afterwards. Thus the story has no picture book for the period May 10, 1991 - January 7, 1992. But this is not important. It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#inspirational #experience

I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a "serious" novel. ↗

— Roman Payne

#growth #hard-times #hardship #jail #jailbird

Sometimes the comfort of being in a relationship lulls you into mundane complacency; you become irrelevant in each other’s lives. We call this phenomenon 'growing apart'. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #love #marriage #relationship

Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion. ↗

— James Carville

#catholic #catholics #church #day #democrat