experience

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The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.

- Brown, Les

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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

- Harold Macmillan

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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

- George Bernard Shaw

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By far the best proof is experience.

- Sir Francis Bacon

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

- Oscar Levant

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

- Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Sacha Guitry

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

- Mumford, Lewis

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Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

- Jimmy Connors

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Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

- Minna Thomas Antrim

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Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

- Addison, Joseph

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There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

- Jacob Braude

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

- Denis Waitley

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A proverb is the child of experience.

- Proverb, English

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People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.

- Santayana, George

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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

- Butterworth, Eric

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We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.

- Peter De Vries

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You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.

- Anderson, Greg