#peri

The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#been #control #experiment #giving #individuals

I’m great at giving advice to singles; I’ve been coping with loneliness for a long time, and I have a lot of experiences to share for 3.99 a minute. ↗

— Bauvard

#loneliness #love #relationships #single #experience

I experience God as the power of love. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#god #i #love #power

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#full #healed #only #suffering

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience. ↗

— Alain Prost

#confidence #experience #i #important #interested

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#could #expunge #gladly #him #his

Introspective souls are often tormented by their passionate visions. This is because visionaries see what shall be and wake up to what is. However, if you couldn't see a glimpse of the city lights while stranded in the forest how would you ever know to walk in that direction? Sometimes your vision can't be written or spoken about unless you gather the learning experiences and stories along your journey first. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#journey #life-missions #setbacks #visionary #experience

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed...the habits of a vigorous mind are formed contending with difficulties. All history will convince you of this, and that wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#experience

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#end #experience #finds #himself #his

I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#beginning #being #centuries #century #comes