#tan

How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known? ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#experience #understanding #experience

The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be. ↗

— Leo Babauta

#circumstance #happiness #inspiration #life #pleaure

Whenever someone dies, a part of the universe dies too. Everything a person felt, experience and saw dies with them, like tears in the rain. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#the-winner-stands-alone #experience

No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no amount of experience or insight is going to rectify our deficiencies, our self-regard, or our cupidity. We have to learn that our desires do not find any real echo in the world. We have to accept that the people we love do not love us, or not in the way we hope. We have to accept betrayal and disloyalty, and, hardest of all, that someone is finer than we are in character or intelligence. ↗

— Sándor Márai

#deire #disloyalty #love #experience

To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.' How monotonous, how useless this becomes. What about the honors of Joan of Arc, Beauvoir, Stowe, Xena, Princess Leia, or women that would truly fight for something other than just their own emotions? ↗

— Criss Jami

#beauvoir #emotion #et-cetera #etc #etcetera

Relationships: If you put up with it, you’re going to end up with it. Set the standard you want and don’t settle for less. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #love #relationship #settle #standard

Just because your pain is understandable, doesn't mean your behavior is acceptable. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#behavior #inspirational #life #motivational #pain

You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining. ↗

— N.K. Jemisin

#existence #philosophy #self #experience

What I want you to take away from my life story is just how important it is to defend your freedom, at all costs. Experience has shown me that if you lose your freedom, you are condemned to fail. ↗

— Leon Schgrin

#holocausts #leon-schagrin #the-horse-adjutant #experience

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#blame #correcting #error #fault #friendship