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“Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes”
Oscar Wilde
“My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.”
“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
Emily Dickinson
“I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.”
Barbara De Angelis
“Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.”
Henry Ford
“The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.”
Tom Bodett
“It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.”
Woody Allen
“If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.”
Anais Nin