Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation.” ~ Michael Jordan

“Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” ~Bruce Lee

Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” ~ Drew Barrymore

Experience has convinced me that there is a thousand times more goodness, wisdom, and love in the world than men imagine.--Gehles 

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) 

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.--Immanuel Kant 

Experiences are the seeds out of which wisdom grows.--Konrad Adenauer 

Good judgment is usually the result of experience. And experience is frequently the result of bad judgment. But to learn from the experience of others requires those who have the experience to share the knowledge with those who follow.--Barry LePatner (To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design) 

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.--Joseph Campbell 

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.--Patrick Henry

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I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.--Ann Morrow Lindbergh (Gift from the Sea) 

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be millionaires.--Abigail Van Buren 

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.--Bryan Adams 

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.--Raymond Holliwell 

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.--Pete Seeger

Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.” - John Piper