#peri

What our men and women in uniform are doing is providing for the Iraqi people and other surrounding nations the opportunity to see, to taste and to experience the democracy that equals freedom and ultimately justice. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#doing #equals #experience #freedom #iraqi

...the basic premise of religion—that if you live a good life, things will go well for you—is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet he had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#prosperity #religion #age

breathe in experience breathe out poetry ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#poetry #experience

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. ↗

— Patrick Henry

#feet #guided #i #lamp #which

...success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue...as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#experience

Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#experience

How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? ↗

— William Blake

#my-name-is-nina #experience

I think my favorite experience is whatever I'm doing now. ↗

— Skitch Henderson

#experience #favorite #i #i think #now

What I always meant by that was that I do believe that a lot of directors, and writers, and sometimes producers just lose their edge because they haven't seen anybody or talked to anybody or been with anybody who isn't a kind of replica of themselves for a long period of time. ↗

— Buck Henry

#anybody #because #been #believe #directors

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience. ↗

— Keith Henson

#anyone #because #been #degrading #doing