#u

I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#friendship #solitude #friendship

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#experience

Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty. Chocolate isn't like premarital sex. It will not make you pregnant. And it always feels good. ↗

— Lora Brody

#food #humor #sex #experience

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#bravery #courage #dauntless #experience #life

All knowledge hurts. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#disillusionment #experience #knowledge #wisdom #experience

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one. ↗

— George Harrison

#carpe-diem #future #past #present #time

I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain. ↗

— James Patterson

#humor #pudding #experience

Let today be the day you learn the grace of letting go and the power of moving on. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #let-go #life #moving-on #power

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#bad #comes #good #good judgment #judgment

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it? ↗

— James Patterson

#unrequited-love #yearning #experience