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We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#depth #reading #value #experience

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation. ↗

— John Ortberg

#experience

The world is my church. My actions are my prayer. My behavior is my creed. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#behavior #church #creed #inspirational #motivational

Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust. ↗

— Richard Wright

#relationships #experience

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#wisdom #experience

Embrace love and compassion with all your spirit. Understand that they never hurt or offend, they just heal and empower. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#embrace #empower #heal #inspirational #life

LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of – it hammered home to me that reality was not a fixed thing. That the reality that we saw about us every day was one reality, and a valid one – but that there were others, different perspectives where different things have meaning that were just as valid. That had a profound effect on me. ↗

— Alan Moore

#drugs #lsd #experience

Driving a hot car is a lot like sex to me, or a lot like I keep thinking sex should be: A total body experience, overwhelming, to all the senses, taking you places you've never been, packing a punch that leaves you breathless and touches your soul. The Viper was way more satisfying then my last boyfriend. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#humor #sex #experience

I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For instance, you have pain over certain conditions, certain situations that occur. And if you just say ‘ok, here I am, I’m going to experience the pain,’ you don’t suffer. The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering. ↗

— Hubert Selby Jr.

#suffering #experience

If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen. ↗

— Brené Brown

#joy #love #resilience #experience