How often the process of construction starts with destruction. ― Cynan Jones

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Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy. ― Booker T. Washington

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I am alive in 21st Century America. I have a voice. Let it serve as a corrective to the violent and reckless power that stands against the force of love. ― Tracy K. Smith

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Maybe it's good we don't know what will happen next in our stories, because if we did, we might not turn the page. Or we might skip ahead and never experience the good that comes out of the hard moment we're living through ― Simone Biles

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Power is find at the limit of pain. ― Lailah Gifty Akita

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The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be miserable. ― Thomas L. Masson

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

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