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"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."
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"We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength."
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"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."
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"Today's experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future."
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"Experience comes from failure and success comes from experience. Today's pain will bring tomorrow's gain."
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"When the reality looks extraordinarily unreal, you must know that you are in an extraordinarily beautiful place!"
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"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."
Experience
"The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy."
Wisdom
"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."
Mind
"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
Age
"America is a young country with an old mentality."
Politics
"Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence."
Life
"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned."
Culture
"It is wisdom to believe the heart."
Philosophy
"Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end."
Spiritual
"Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo The Last Puritan and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure."
Life
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