Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes

Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Behold, we live through all things,--famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery,
All woe and sorrow; read more

Behold, we live through all things,--famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery,
All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst
On soul and body,--but we cannot die,
Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn,--
Lo, all things can be borne!