Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.--Aldous Huxley (Reader's Digest, March 1956)

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.--Oscar Wilde

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

Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.--Franklin P. Jones

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.--Elbert Hubbard

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.--Katherine Anne Porter ("St. Augustine and the Bullfight" The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter)

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.--Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.--Dan Stanford

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself--in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.--Elizabeth Bowen (The Death of the Heart)

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. —William James

Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.” —Mahatma Gandhi

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” —Carl Bard

“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” —Arthur C. Clarke

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'” —Martin Luther King Jr.

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” —Dr. Suess

“Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.” —Unknown

“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” —Carole Burnett

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” ~ Ronald Reagan

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston Churchill