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There is a moment in our healing journey when our denial crumbles; we realize our experience and it's continued effects on us won't "just go away". That's our breakthrough moment. It's the sun coming out to warm the seeds of hope so they can grow our personal garden of empowerment ~ Jeanne McElvaney ↗

— Jeanne McElvaney

#abuse-survivors #childhood-abuse #childhood-sexual-abuse #effects-of-child-abuse #harrietta-s-happenstance

Reading is a sage way to bump up against life. Reading may be an escape, but it is not an escape from my own life and problems.  It is an escape from the narrow boundaries of being only me. Reading in some wonderful ways helps me find out who I am. When she was a young girl Patricia MacLachlan's mother encouraged her to "read a book and find out who you are." And it is true that in some ways reading defines me as it refines me. Reading enlarges my vision of the world; it helps me understand someone who is different from me. It makes me bigger on the inside. We tend to see the world from our own perspective; it is good to see it from the eyes of others. Good literature helps me understand who I am in relation to what others experience. Far from being an escape from reality, good literature is a window into reality. I read to feel life. ↗

— Gladys Hunt

#perspective #reading #reality #experience

Based on the experience of my life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, If it's not broke, don't fix it. And would go even further to: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you'll probably make it worse. ↗

— George Saunders

#my-chivalric-fiasco #tenth-of-december #experience

I want to give you a simple tool to help. Whenever you want to take a minute to experience the immense power of being present in the moment, do the simple exercise of breathing, and concentrate just for one minute, only one minute, on your breath. This breath is what connects you life, to the world via air, fills you with inhalation, but really gives you the door to inspiration, the door to the quiet mind, the door to the hidden path, the door to the answers you seek." - Inshan Meahjohn, from the Hidden Path.

— Inshan Meahjohn

#breathing #inspirational #love #meditation #mindfulness

i don't trust or have a faith in anything but i just know very well that my past experience so i do trust on my experience. ↗

— Hem kumar pun

#experience

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#life

Love's the son stood stammering elocution while the poor ship in flames went down ↗

— Elizabeth Bishop

#love #loyalty #family

Act as if! Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich. Act as if you have unmatched confidence and then people will surely have confidence in you. Act as if you have unmatched experience and then people will follow your advice. And act as if you are already a tremendous success, and as sure as I stand here today - you will become successful. ↗

— Jordan Belfort

#motivational #success #experience

BRAVERY EXISTS WHEN THERE ARE FEARS TO OVERCOME. HATRED EXISTS WHEN THERE IS LOVE IN BETWEEN. AND SUCCESS EXISTS AFTER WE EXPERIENCE PAIN IN OUR JOURNEY. ↗

— JonalinTurno

#life #motivational-quotes #experience

Embrace life for all its worth. Drink in God's wisdom, and savor all the experiences He offers you. ↗

— Michelle McKinney Hammond

#michelle-mckinney-hammond #what-to-do-until-love-finds-you #experience