Experience, as in living.

I was speaking to a friend the other day and they said something really poignant which I wanted to post. We were discussing life experiences and having a varied career and general experiences and he commented that "life is about never standing still: the present is only ever temporary, so we should have enough memories of the past to help us through – more new things, more memories." I thought that was such a good message that I wanted to put it on my blog. 

I was then inspired to look at more quotes about experience that may also inspire you. I hope they do, as a New Year is time to reflect and declutter your life (but I think we should be doing that all year round, not just in January), so I hope I have helped you to view life in a different perspective. 

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. 

 -- Soren Kierkegaard 

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. 

 -- Oscar Wilde 

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. 

 -- William Osler 

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. 

 -- Aldous Huxley 

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. 

 -- Karl Kraus 

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. 

 -- Edgar Allan Poe