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Experience

1. Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience is what you get from not reading it.
   
   
2. "Every instant the world we know splits into an infinite number of other worlds, different futures and different pasts." Richard Bach
   
   
3. Every thought we think is creating our future. Louise L. Hay
   
   
4. Never make the same mistake twice, make a new one.
   
   
5. Experience doesn't keep a school of its own.
   
   
6. " The wise man expects everything from himself, the fool looks to others." Richter
   
   
7. " Don't ask if a man has been through college, ask if a college has been through him." Chapin
   
   
8. " Experience does take dreadfully high school wages, but it teaches like no other." Thomas Carlyle
   
   
9. You will never quite understand this or that thought until it went through you, until you experienced it yourself, until it went through your heart. Because nothing can really matter until it went through our emotions, our soul. You experience it and then you understand it. Glenn O'Shannon
   
   
10. Don't do anything that one day you will want to forget. God can forgive you, but He can't make you forget.
    
    
11. "One of the basic things which I was a long time in realizing, and which I am still learning, is that when an activity feels as though it is valuable or worth doing, it is worth doing. Put another way, I have learned that my total organismic sensing of a situation is more trustworthy than my intellect. All of my professional life I have been going in directions which others thought were foolish, and about which I have had many doubts myself. But I have never regretted moving in directions which 'felt right,' even though I have often felt lonely or foolish at the time...Experience is, for me, the highest authority...Neither the Bible nor the prophets - neither Freud nor research - neither the revelations of God nor man - can take precedence over my own experience."Carl Rogers
    
    
12. "To err is human, but it feels divine!"  Mae West
    
    
13. Good judgment comes from experience and, unfortunately, experience often comes from bad judgment.
    
    
14. Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over. John J. Emerick
    
    
15. If at first you don't succeed, look in the trash for the instructions.
    
    
16. We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world. Buddha
    
    
17. "Perhaps in every life there has to be, in addition to the other protagonists, a secret, unknown force, an almost symbolic figure who comes unsummoned to the rescue..." Boris Pasternak
    
    
18. We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    
    
19. "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. "The Serenity Prayer
    
    
20. "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." Oscar Wilde