If you have never known happiness and sorrow, then you have not fully experience life.

Lailah Gifty Akita
About This Quote

The word “experience” is a way of describing someone’s life. When someone says their life has been an experience, they are saying that their life has been full of happiness and sorrow. In short, a person who does not have a full experience is a person for whom life does not have meaning. For those who have experienced pain and suffering, though, that pain has brought them closer to God. They have come back from the brink of despair and now see the greatness of God within everything.

Source: Pearls Of Wisdom: Great Mind

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