Quotes about Experience

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.

The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

Life pushes all of us around. Some people give up and others fight. A few learn the lesson and move on. They welcome life pushing them around. To these few people it means they need and want to learn something.

Life is the best teacher of all. Most of the time, life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around. Each push is life saying, 'Wake up'. There is something I want you to learn.

All life lessons are not learned at college,' she thought. 'Life teaches them everywhere.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

I'm glad I never had any children,' said Cousin Sarah. 'If they don't break your heart in one way they do it in another.' 'Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up?' queried Valancy. 'Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.

Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.

There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.

to hike along a deep-rutted, pebbly lane in frail, silver-hued slippers with high French heels, is not an exhilirating experience.