
Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience.Edward Said
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Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience.Edward Said

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.Oscar Wilde

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is a learning experience, only if you learn.Yogi Berra
The best teacher is experience learned from failures.Byron Pulsifer
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.Aldous Huxley
Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.Denis Waitley
A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience.Elbert Hubbard
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt
Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.Dalai Lama
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Helen Keller
Experience can only be gained by doing not by thinking or dreaming.Byron Pulsifer
As we risk ourselves, we grow. Each new experience is a risk.Fran Watson
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.Benjamin Franklin
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.Oprah Winfrey
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.Douglas Adams
Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.Henry Reed
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.Victoria Holt
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.Kahlil Gibran
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.Rodin
Experience is the teacher of all things.Julius Caesar
While asleep, I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen.Srinivasa Ramanujan

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.Albert Einstein

Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.Bruce Lee

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.Albert Camus