But my experience is that people who have been through painful difficult times are filled with compassion.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

But if somebody dies if something happens to you there is a normal process of depression it is part of being human and some people view it as a learning experience etc.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important and when you are going through different moments you can reflect and go 'I have been through worse.'

I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'

You cannot in human experience rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe with a conviction based on experience that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

When we learn from experience the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness it's a strength.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Tactics fitness stroke ability adaptability experience and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience rather than understanding that influences behavior.

Reason observation and experience the holy trinity of science.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.