experience

experience

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. The Picture of Dorian Gray
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Four Quartets
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. Texts & Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain. The Wild Palms
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle. Brida
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.
How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves. Veronika Decides to Die
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned. Sunset Gun
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. Journey to the Center of the Earth