#sf

Experiences are the gifts from God, but we never seek those directly. You and I are to be seeking. You and I are to be hungering and thirsting after righteousness and then the experiences are the gifts. ↗

— Brian Richardson

#righteousness #satisfaction #experience

We define learning as the transformative process of taking in information that, when internalized and mixed with what we have experienced, changes what we know and builds on what we can do. It’s based on input, process, and reflection. It is what changes us. ↗

— Marcia Conner

#experience #learning #learning-process #reflection #transformation

It would be ridiculous to hold your breath and blame others for your inability to breathe. In the same sense, it is ridiculous to live an unaligned life and blame God for your misfortune. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#breathe #god #life #live #misfortune

If the sky falls, there'll be a bigger sky behind it. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#misfortune #optimism #tragedy #experience

Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#foundation #sf #faith

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#every #man #mother-in-law #stands #successful

Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction! Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#honour #humour #reputation #satisfaction #sex

No, I wanted to say, he didn't cut off her hands because he didn't have to, he had cut them off long before, with years of keeping all authority in his own palms, all the rules and all the power and all the answers emanating from him and no one else. And if you don't understand that, if you've never been in such a family, then you can't know the way the mind shackles itself and amputates its own limbs so adeptly that you never think to miss them, never think that you had anything so obscene as choice. ↗

— Carolina De Robertis

#dysfunctional-families #family

I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing each day used to the full to actually produce something. The end. ↗

— Michael Palin

#home #productivity #satisfaction #writing #family

The dysfunction was not the character of one person, it was the split of family by divorce, with the ripples felt for eternity by bloodline. ↗

— Amber Garibay

#divorce #dysfunction #family #family