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I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life. ↗

— Hubert Selby Jr.

#motivation #death

We walk until there aren't more houses, all the way to the part of the beach where the current makes the waves come in then rush back out so that the two waves clash, water casting up like a geyser. We watch that for a while and then Scottie says, "I wish Mom was here." I'm thinking the exact same thought. That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too. Every day I kept track of anecdotes, occurrences, and gossip, bullet-pointing the news in my head and even rehearsing my stories before telling them to Joanie in bed at night. ↗

— Kaui Hart Hemmings

#love #missing-someone #stories #experience

YOU are your love of a lifetime. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#lifetime #love #loving-yourself #relationship #experience

If your salvation was dependent on your ability to read and understand scripture, Jesus would have been an author. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#jesus #salvation #scripture #experience

There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something; Gifted people ARE that something. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #inspirational #life #motivational-quotes #success

Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you. ↗

— Gayle Roper

#marriage #relationships #woman #life

That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves. If we are directed from Washington (heads of an organization) when to sow and when to reap, we will soon want for bread. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#political-philosophy #small-government #discipline

You‘ve been given the innate power to shape your life. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #motivational #potential #power #success

It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#bullies #experiences #growing-up #high-school #high-school-kids

The mind loves whatever repeats a pleasurable experience from the past. "I love this" basically means "I love repeating what felt so good before". ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#psychology-spirituality #experience