“Life experiences, mental illness, drugs, greed, environment, and poor role-modeling can all forge damaged people and can generate a darkness, an exploitiveness, in the way they approach life. Whatever their genesis, there are people in your life (and mine) who will hurt you if you let them.”— Phil McGraw, amazon.com
“The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be very useful in the real world, that's for sure.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“If you want to change the condition and experience of your life, pay attention to every thought and every feeling so that you can make different choices.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“Everything you are experiencing is a function of what you are thinking.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“Whatever happened over this past year, be thankful for where it brought you. Where you are is where you're meant to be.”— Mel Robbins, twitter.com
“Go for it. You'll either win or learn. Experience is more valuable than anything.”— Mel Robbins, twitter.com
“Want to know the difference between a master and a beginner? The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”— Mel Robbins, twitter.com
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”— Aldous Huxley, amazon.com
“Like a lot of feminists, I think about how women can build power, help one another, and work toward justice. But it is less common for us to examine the ways we might wield the power we already have. Among the most potent of these powers is the knowledge of our own experiences.”— Moira Donegan, thecut.com
“I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“I’m really tired, I’m really struggling, it’s even hard to breathe today How was your day? You’re smiling, you look like you’re in a good mood, it’s nice to see Will you tell me your stories?”— Kim Jonghyun, open.spotify.com
“Everything builds us up to who we are today in one way or another. Embrace every experience you have.”— Cassey Ho, instagram.com
“You feel like you understand pain and suffering even if you never actually experienced it, and most of the time it seems like your soul had another home that it keeps longing for.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“Do not peruse an old soul. Do not taste test. Dive deep even if for a fleeting moment. Only then will you experience what an old soul has to offer.”— Samira Khan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Old souls spend much time growing their garden of experiences and deepening their souls.”— Samira Khan, thoughtcatalog.com