The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
—Robert Herrick
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
—David T. Wolf
Experience has taught me that fate is sometimes cruel and that even a boatload of hope is sometimes not enough.
—Nicholas Sparks in The Longest Ride
They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
—Bil Keane
In forming a bridge between body and mind, dreams may be used as a springboard from which man can leap to new realms of experience lying outside his normal state of consciousness and enlarge his vision not only of himself, but also of the universe in which he lives.
—Ann Faraday
Even very recently, the elders could say [to the youths]: "You know, I have been young and you never have been old." But today's young people can reply: "You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be." . . . This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.
—Margaret Mead
Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.
—Clarence Darrow
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
—Angela Monet
Although many things may still need to happen before you identify what your exact work will be, I know that every single person whom you're meeting and every experience that you're having is necessary to you discovering your purpose. They are points on a map leading you to the moment where a match will finally be lit and you will be able to see through the darkness.
—Jennifer Elisabeth
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
—Isaac Bashevis Singer
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
—Rita Mae Brown
My hypersensitive awareness of time's speed led me to push myself to experience life at a maximum pace. If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.
—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
—Elizabeth Drew
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
—Oscar Wilde