"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning." James Russell Lowell

"Lessons in life never go away until you learn them." Buddha

"It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning
 no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening."
 Sue Monk Kidd

"A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not." Talmud

"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours." Wayne Dyer

"Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get." Mark Twain

"The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty."
 Jon Krakauer

"We collect data, things, people, ideas, profound experiences, never penetrating any of them... But there are other times. There are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper." James Carroll

"It's an illusion that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who gives this power to them." Anthony de Mello

"You see everything is about belief, whatever we believe rules our existence, rules our life." Don Miguel Ruiz

"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy." William Blake

"A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience." Elbert Hubbard

"Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others." Alain de Botton

"Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt." Jose Ortega y Gasset

"The winds of grace are blowing all the time, you only have to raise your sail." Sri Ramakrishna

"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there -- lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more." Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)

"To control attention means to control experience, and therefore the quality of life." Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not." James Kern Feibleman, philosopher and psychiatrist (1904-1987)

"One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are."Gail Godwin

“At the very least, experience furnishes the houses of our lives -- but we choose whether to live in them.” I. Marc Carlson