“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.”
“Experience is what you get when you didn t get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”
“By seeking and blundering we learn.”
“And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.”
“How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?”
“How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?”
“...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”
“Never regret. If it s good, it s wonderful. If it s bad, it s experience.”
“I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.”
“A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.”
“nothing that is worth knowing can be taught”
“Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.”
“Experience is one thing you can t get for nothing.”
“We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.”
“Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.”
“Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.”
“Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”