Quotes about Experience

To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and I am free to stand on the rock of all that the past has taught me as I look to the future.

We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.

An old ass knows more than a young colt

Maybe you have to know the darkness to truly appreciate the light."—Madeleine L'Engle

Why is it, she wondered, that things that hurt people make them deeper and more understanding?

Maybe if you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

cow. It finished opera for me for years.

What happens to what's happened? she asked the bishop. It's there. Waiting. But the time gate's closed, isn't it? Yes. But that can't take away what we've had. The good and the bad.

Why is it that some grown-ups just seem to go on getting dumber and dumber year by year instead of learning anything?

I don't go along with the people who say they'd never want to live their childhoods again; I treasure every bit of mine, all the pains as well as the joy of discovery. But I also love being a grownup. To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and am free to stand on the rock of all that the past has taught me as I look towards the future.

You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.