Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.

I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.

You can't go through the kinds of things I've gone through, as much as I have, without re-evaluating yourself and making adjustments. And you can't endure these horrendous circumstances without developing a certain level of strength and wisdom.

From adversity we can learn the value of patience.

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

The process of growth is, it seems, the art of falling down. Growth is measured by the gentleness and awareness with which we once again pick ourselves up, the lightness with which we dust ourselves off, the openness with which we continue and take the next unknown step, beyond our edge, beyond our holding, into the remarkable mystery of being.

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

If you learn life's lessons, you will do well. If not, life will just continue to push you around. People do two things. Some just let life push them around. Others get angry and push back. But they push back against their boss, or their job, or their husband or wife. They do not know it's life that's pushing.

It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.

If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are.

I am a quiet man who grows through adversity.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.