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" Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. "

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" Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. "

" The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience. "

" I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think. "

" A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world. "

" Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it. "

" In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. "

" If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job. "

" Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture. "

" Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply. "

" I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future. "

" People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence. "

" As an artist, the more experience, the better the creation. I'm a very positive person. "

" All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience. "

" The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. "

" Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. "

" A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies. "

" The reward of suffering is experience. "

" Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness. "

" Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important. "

" I listen more to music when I'm on my computer. I'm into the latest YouTube thing. I'm a nanosecond kind of listener, but if I'm driving I would be listening to a Merle Haggard box set. It's a weird experience listening to 'Working Man Blues' by Merle Haggard and cruising around in a Porsche. "

" Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy. "

" I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics. "

" To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. "

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

" It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion. "

Albert Einstein

" Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. "

" The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. "

" Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously. "