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Saint Teresa of Avila

"To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience."

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"To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience."

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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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"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."

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"Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives."
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"All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted."
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"O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it."
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"To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that."
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"We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us."
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"The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit."
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