Bernie Siegel Quotes

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real.

Sometimes the most difficult, horrific things can be the greatest spiritual teachers.

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

It gets easier as you get older because life deals its particular hand, and our experiences get deeper, richer, more profound. When I gave birth to my son, something happened. It is a huge thing for a woman: a whole set of emotions you never had before arrives, and a love you never had before in your life is now on tap.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

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

My music is about the journey, about love and the human experience.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

I learned everything the hard way - like, literally, everything. I know that God does that to people that he has lessons for. I just wish that I had learned less extreme lessons.

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

There is no other teacher but your own soul.

And I'll see your true colors shining through I see your true colors and that's why I love you so don't be afraid to let them show your true colors, true colors are beautiful like a RAINBOW.

The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn.

The hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.

Everything we experience-no matter how unpleasant-comes into our lives to teach us something.

I don't think I changed a lot although I learned a lot. Adversity can be a wonderful teacher. Some people can't handle the pressure of it. For me it was a great thing. I learned about myself going through tough times. I guess I learned well.

My enemy is my greatest teacher.

Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings.

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Healing opportunities can be disguised as people who really piss you off. Pay attention because they could be your greatest teachers.

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.

Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of one's experience - good, bad, or ugly; painful or exalted; dull or boring.