You can't step twice into the same river.

You can't step twice into the same river.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men read more

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. read more

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Experience join'd with common sense,
To mortals is a providence.

Experience join'd with common sense,
To mortals is a providence.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

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

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

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary
as the shadows fall, or read more

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary
as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.