Pema Chodron Quotes

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

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.

All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step

I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

Everything is a learning experience for me.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.

I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it

The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.

Why does life keep teaching me lessons I have no desire to learn?

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true. You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers. The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn.

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

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

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

I have learned that I am not built for conflict or controversy. I have also learned that, in all my life, I have never chosen a story. The story has always chosen me.

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.