30 Experience Quotes That’ll Inspire You to Savor Every Moment

We are all shaped by our experiences. Whether good or bad, we are molded and changed forever. Positive experiences give us some of our best moments, while the unpleasant ones help us get stronger. By making mistakes and going through tough times, we strengthen ourselves with prudence and resilience, which always comes in handy at any point in life.

Sometimes, it’s hard to acknowledge experience as a friend or a teacher. If we could choose, there are things we’d rather not undergo to spare ourselves from the pain and the burden. But we don’t get to choose. They happen and it’s up to us to make the best of challenges that come our way. That’s the beauty of experience – it teaches us to be brave.

Here are 30 comforting experience quotes to remind you that life is a series of good and bad experiences, rolled altogether to make you stronger and wiser.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark. – Thomas Paine

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. – John Dewey

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. – Alan Keightley

Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience. – Victoria Holt

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just…in between. – Jim Morrison

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. – Henry Ford

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. – Ansel Adams

Turn your wounds into wisdom. – Oprah Winfrey

You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you. – Mary Tyler Moore

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves. – Paulo Coelho

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. – Randy Pausch

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience – well, that comes from poor judgment. – A.A.Milne

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment. – Eckhart Tolle

Some things cannot be taught; they must be experienced. You never learn the most valuable lessons in life until you go through your own journey. – Roy T. Bennett

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you? – Robert Frost

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. – Truman Capote

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens. – Veronica Roth

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. – John Keats

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle. – Paulo Coelho

You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness. – Laurie Faria Stolarz

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

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time. – Ben Okri

In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn. – Octavia Butler

A baby has brains, but it doesn’t know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get. – L. Frank Baum

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. – Auguste Rodin

By seeking and blundering we learn. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe