#experience

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it? ↗

— James Patterson

#unrequited-love #yearning #experience

I am so grateful for the many times God has shown me the mercy of not giving me what I want. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#grateful #gratitude #happiness #life #mercy

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#life #philosophy #relevance #truth #experience

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. ↗

— William Styron

#reading #experience

Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope. ↗

— Gayla Reid

#hope #life #life-experience #memories #old

Any experience can be transformed into something of value. ↗

— Vash Young

#experience #into #something #transformed #value

...ordinary experience has to be made extraordinary in order to become accessible to reflection. ↗

— Shoshana Zuboff

#age

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight. ↗

— Chris Bohjalian

#experience #life-lessons #maturity #age

Intrinsic values and qualities are age-free. For example, social competencies or a good heart. ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#etiquette #giving-advice #good-manners #life-coaching #life-experience

Reading books in one's youth is like looking at the moon through a crevice; reading books in middle age is like looking at the moon in one's courtyard; and reading books in old age is like looking at the moon on an open terrace. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#perception #age