Shunryu Suzuki Quotes

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

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.

Character is a journey, not a destination.

All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.

The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.

You will learn and grow according to the nature and consequences of your actions.

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.

Christlikeness is a journey, not a destination. The joy is in the journey.

Lord I'm Doing All I Can To Be A Better Man.

Novels teach you that actions have consequences. They help you grow up.

Every experience makes you grow.

I recommend anybody go to a bookstore, go down the self-help or new-age section, and just walk those aisles. See what book jumps out at you; there's a good chance it's a book you need in your life. That's basically how I find the books that I read.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life.

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

The message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ is that we can and must expect to become better as long as we live.

I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.