...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.

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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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Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. - Bill Bradley

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Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive. - Al Neuharth

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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. — Vernon Sanders Law

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We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar, and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all. – Joanna Gaines

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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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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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It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. ― Lucy Maud Montgomery

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We can activate tremendous powers within our own lives if we open up to the experience. ― Ari Gunzburg

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