Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” — ALDOUS HUXLEY

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.” — ALDOUS HUXLEY

Was Du erlebst, kann keine Macht der Welt Dir rauben. (What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.) Not only our experiences, but all we have done, whatever great thoughts we may have had and all we have suffered, all this is not lost, though it is past; we have brought it into being. Having been is a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.

"Above all, for Western people with their hypertrophied rationality, the development and expansion of a direct, emotional experience of reality, unobstructed by words and concepts, would be of evolutionary significance. (Aldous Huxley's "Human Resources")"

"Experience is the thing of supreme value".

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.

You can't create experience, you undergo it.

"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance."
- Thomas Huxley

There is not one experience, no matter how devastating, no matter how tortuous it may appear to have been, there is nothing that’s ever wasted. Everything that is happening to you is being drawn into your life as a means to help you evolve into who you were really meant to be here on Earth. It’s not the thing that matters, it’s what that thing opens within you. — <i>Oprah</i>

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Experience in the degree in which it is experience is heightened vitality. Instead of signifying being shut up within one’s own private feelings and sensations, it signifies active and alert commerce with the world; at its height it signifies complete interpenetration of self and the world of objects and events.

our experience is what we attend to