“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
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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.”
“I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?”
“Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.”
“Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.”
“There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.”
“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.”
“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't.”
“Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't.”
“You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.”
“Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.”
“Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.”
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
“Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.”
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
“A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.”
“I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.”
“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
“If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.”
“Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.”
“Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.”
“Conviction without experience makes for harshness.”