Pema Chodron Quotes

Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.

A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.

I believe my past is my strength.

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

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some things you can't. If you want a short recipe for being frustrated and miserable, this is it: focus on things you can't control.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.

Some of the things I'm most proud of, it isn't because I think it's my best work; it's because of something that it's taught me.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

I'm grateful for all the experiences, even the negative ones.

I just hope that as I get older, I calm down and enjoy the moment, enjoy the great gifts that God has given me.

I never really look back. My journey has been unorthodox in many ways. All I do is count my blessings and try to be as present as I can, and I'm thankful for every step of this journey.

Prince didn't want to celebrate birthdays but to live life, to elevate and educate to the next level of enlightenment.

When you're actually boxing, unless it's a proper grudge match, it's less about beating the person up and more about being better within yourself. Being patient, timing things, like chess, so really, it's as much down to you as what the other person does - and that's life.

Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.

Snowboarding has really shaped the person I've become, and I consider every moment a good one because every one has led me to where I am now.

On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you. Evolution is win-win…life is self-correcting.