Richard Rohr Quotes

We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.

I cherish all of the times I've fallen on my face and made mistakes, because those experiences have made me who I am.

I wouldn't be where I am today without my mistakes. Particularly my mistakes. Exclusively my mistakes.

I had the luxury of falling down a few times and picking myself up as a stronger version of myself.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.

When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

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.

Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.

We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

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.

One thing about pushing yourself outside your comfort zone is that you're going to make mistakes, and you're going to fall flat on your face sometimes.

You can always learn when you lose.

To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve.

I think the greatest mistakes have been my greatest lessons.