One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity. ~Baltasar Gracián

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. ~Dan Stanford

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
~Oscar Wilde

You can gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
*contributed by Kyrialei*

What experience and history teach is this: that people and governments have never learned anything from history.
~Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself : in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
~Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)

Enim fortuna malignior unquam
Eripiet nobis quod prior hora dedit.
Ill-luck can never take away those experiences the past has given us. ~Petronius (?-66? A.D), Satyricon

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Dreams

Nothing happens unless first a dream. ~Seneca

Within our power
lies every step
we ever dream of making

Within our range
lies every joy
we ever dream of seeing...

Within ourselves
lies everything
we ever dream of being.
~Amanda Bradley

If you need a helping hand you'll find one at the end of your arm. ~Yiddish proverb

Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push. ~JoAnn Thomas

Mind

What is mind? Doesn't matter. What is matter? Never mind.
~Doggerel attributed by the philosopher Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970) to his parents

Little things affect little minds. ~Benjamin Disraeli

An open mind collects more riches than an open purse.
~Will Henry

Of all the things I've lost in life, I miss my mind the most.
~Steven Tyler (Aerosmith)
contributed by Harpoon a.k.a. Steven Yunghans

Minds of moderate calibre ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.
~François, Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), Maxims

Gossip

Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil--and you'll never be invited to a party. ~Oscar Wilde

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your tongue. ~Irish proverb