Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley.
The point
True experience is defined not by what happens to us, but by how we respond to it.
Alternate wording
Experience37 words
“Experience,” says Aldous Huxley,
“is not what happens to a man; it is
what a man does with what happens to
him. It is a gift for dealing with the
accidents of existence, not the accidents
themselves.”
