Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.

Quote by Aldous Huxley

Topics: Encouragement Quotes, Experience Quotes

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second...

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second...

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give...

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give...

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams,...

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams,...

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing...

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing...

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself,...

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself,...

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most...

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most...

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are...

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are...

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses....

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses....

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible...

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible...

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the...

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the...

I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously...

I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously...

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad

He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad