To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence read more

To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's
bread, and how sad a path it read more

Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's
bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's
stairs.
[It., Tu proverai si come sa di sale
Lo pane altrui, e com e duro calle
Lo scendere e'l salir per l'altrui scale.]

A burnt child dreads the fire.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?

Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?

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!

"Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high."

"Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high."

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.