Experiences were what you got when you couldn’t get what you wanted.

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.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted .

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you — it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

Those of our pleasures which come most rarely give the greatest delight.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

Simply having useful, enjoyable experiences is not enough.

What you get will never make you happy; who you become will make you very happy or very sad.” If each day you make just a little progress, you will feel the joy that comes with personal growth. And that leads to perhaps one of the most important lessons I have learned about big goals and achievement.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

So what do we do? Well, if you’re like I used to be, you avoid using anything at all. You aim to keep your options open as long as possible. You avoid commitment.
But while investing deeply in one person, one place, one job, one activity might deny us the breadth of experience we’d like, pursuing a breadth of experience denies us the opportunity to experience the rewards of depth of experience. There are some experiences that you can have only when you’ve lived in the same place for five years, when you’ve been with the same person for over a decade, when you’ve been working on the same scale or craft for half your lifetime.
/when you’re pursuing a wide breadth of experience, there are diminishing returns to each new adventure, each new person or thing. When you’ve never left your home country, the first country you visit inspires a massive perspective shift, because you have such a narrow experience space to draw on. But when you’ve been to twenty countries, the twenty-first adds little. And when you’ve been to fifty, the fifty-first adds even less. [the same goes for any other life experience]

...you can only value something if you've experienced it.

The pleasures that give most joy are the ones that most rarely come.

You can't create experience, you undergo it.