Quotes Tagged "experience"

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure.

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.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

Don't Just Don't just learn, experience. Don't just read, absorb. Don't just change, transform. Don't just relate, advocate. Don't just promise, prove. Don't just criticize, encourage. Don't just think, ponder. Don't just take, give. Don't just see, feel. Don’t just dream, do. Don't just hear, listen. Don't just talk, act. Don't just tell, show. Don't just exist, live.

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.

We learn from failure, not from success!

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

Let weakness learn meekness.

Experience has two things to teach: The first is that we must correct a great deal; the second that we must not correct too much.

Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced.

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars!