#experience

"I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me."

"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."

"What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought."

"No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience."

"Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth."

"I'm still trying to figure out how to write about cancer and my family's experience with it. If I had been able to write 'The Pura Principle' back in those days, I'm positive it would have had no humor in it. Which means the story would have been false."

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

"only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being."

"I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same."

"It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs."

"If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge."

"All knowledge hurts."

"Making time to experience joy is the single most important thing you can do to heal your heart."

"Patience and persistence are the keys... The keys to unlock doors of success... With these two virtues, you grow in reasoning and experience."

"Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps"

"The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power."

"It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade."

"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."

"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."