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• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

  Confucius

  Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

  "Words of Wisdom to Live By". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.

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• To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Lying, Soul

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.100, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moving On, World, Gleam

  'Ulysses' (1842) l. 6

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• Turn your wounds into wisdom.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Oprah Winfrey (2017). “The Wisdom of Sundays: Life-Changing Insights and Inspirational Conversations”, p.120, Pan Macmillan

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• Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Feb 21, 2013

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  Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

  Jules Verne

  Mistake, Science, Littles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Experience is never limited, and it is never complete

  Henry James

  Spiders, Tissues, Spider Web

  "The Art of Fiction" (1884)

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• All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Faith, Spiritual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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  One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

  James Russell Lowell

  Educational, Knowledge, Understanding

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books”, p.223

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• The voice you believe will determine the future you experience

  Steven Furtick

  God, Faith, Christian

  Steven Furtick (2014). “Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others”, p.24, Multnomah

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• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspirational, Business, Wisdom Experience

  1857-8 The Professor at the Breakfast Table, ch.10.

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• Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspirational, Leadership, Summer

  "Heads and Tales". Book by Malvina Hoffman, p. 47, 1936.

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• Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Positive

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1844.

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• What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Journey, Firsts

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  Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

  John Keats

  Positive, Happiness, Real

  Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 19 March 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 81

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• Don't spend money on things... spend money on experiences. You'll enjoy life a lot more!

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Life, Money, Fun

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• I think in business, you have to learn to be patient. Maybe I'm not very patient myself. But I think that I've learned the most is be able to wait for something and get it when it's the right time.

  Bernard Arnault

  Inspiration, Learning, Thinking

  "Chairman of LVMH, Bernard Arnault Talk Asia Interview Transcript". "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2005.

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  A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Inspirational, Wise, Travel

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• All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Courage, Dark

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.90, New Directions Publishing

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• This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!

  Sivananda

  Motivational, Uplifting, Faith

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• No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Business, Military

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• All experience is an arch, to build upon.

  Henry Adams

  Inspirational, Moving On, Science

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 6 (1907)

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• Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Pain, Mistake

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• My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

  Agnetha Faltskog

  Unhappy, Path, Determined

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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