“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
“More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren t so busy denying them”
“When the image is new, the world is new.”
“Experience is not worth the getting. It s not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it s a wall that an active you runs up against.”
“I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything”
“The moral of the story is even though that seemed like the end of the world back then, right now I can look back on it and laugh. And if anyone is going through something similar right now just know it will get better.”
“In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.”
“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
“God isn t the son of Memory; He s the son of Immediate Experience. You can t worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it s hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you ve got to die to every other moment.”
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.”
“A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow. ”
“Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.”
“The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.”
“I ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.”
“Wisdom is the daughter of experience”
“If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven t done much today.”