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

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"What we feel, think and are determined in large part by our viscera and ductless glands."

- Aldous Huxley

Awareness

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."

- Aldous Huxley

Awareness

"To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one’s own, is ever the beginning of one’s real ethical orientation."

- Aldous Huxley

Compassion

"Experience Is Not What Happens To You, It Is What You Do With What Happens To You."

- Aldous Huxley

Personal Growth

"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him."

- Aldous Huxley

Personal Growth

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"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Max DePree

Growth

"How marvelous is the generation with which you deal. We have never had a generation its equal in all of the history of the Church. They are better educated. They are more familiar with the scriptures. I believe they pray with a greater measure of faith, have a greater desire to do the will of the Lord, are more active in the Church, go into the world as better prepared missionaries, and live to become better parents."

- President Gordon B. Hinckley

Growth

"Allow yourself the opportunity to get uncomfortable."

- Alex Toussaint

Growth

"All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone."

- Tony Robbins

Growth

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."

- Mary Tyler Moore

Growth