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Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually motivated by altruism or a desire to hook up or a search for answers or what. I always get annoyed when in books or movies characters want clear things for clear reasons, because my experience of humanness is that I always want messy things for messy reasons. ↗

— John Green

#characters #desire #messy #experience

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#friendship

We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#essence #experience #marathon #men #meters

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#experience

Make sure that when you touch the other person, all your five senses are working, because sex has a life of its own. The moment you begin, you’re no longer in control; it takes control of you. And whatever you bring to it, your fears, your desires, your sensibility will remain. That’s why people become impotent. When you have sex, take with you to bed only love and your senses, all five of them. Only then will you experience communion with God. ↗

— Paolo Coehlo

#love #sex #experience

Your tears only water your weeds ↗

— Red

#inspirational

A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#persistence #experience

It has been my experience that women tell more intimate details to their friends than men do. Men may brag more, but women will talk the nitty-gritty and share the experience more. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#mars-venus #experience

Every memory makes me who I am right now, in this moment. Good or bad, all experiences shape you. ↗

— L.H. Cosway

#experience

Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#compassion #inspiration #mindfulness #experience