#peri

You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness. ↗

— Laurie Faria Stolarz

#experience

Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it. ↗

— Dorothy M. Neddermeyer

#depressed #depression #esteem #hypnosis #panic

What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse. ↗

— Henry Miller

#experience

My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#define #happiness #inspirational #life #motivational

Experience has shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#complacency #corruption #decline #misgovernment #political-philosophy

We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows. ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

#life #passion #truth #experience

Man, you weigh a freaking ton," he told me. "What've you been eating, rocks?" "Why, is your head missing some?" I croaked. His mouth almost quirked in a smile, and that's when I knew how upset he'd been ↗

— James Patterson

#james #max #maximum #patterson #ride

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#identity #thoughts #experience

The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be. ↗

— Leo Babauta

#circumstance #happiness #inspiration #life #pleaure

No, the next time i kiss you it'll last a long, long time. And then when we're done you're gonna realize being turned on is not about experience ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#leaving-paradise #simone-elkeles #experience