Shakti Gawain Quotes

You learn from adversity more than anything because it allows you to see so much. It really allows you to see things in a different way.

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

I'm grateful for every opportunity. I learned the hard way.

Your problems are not there to defeat you, they are there to increase you.

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.

A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates; but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals.

Facing difficulties is inevitable. Learning from them is optional.

I don't have any problems in life, just situations.

I view the experiences that I have had - both tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts. They've been full of lessons. And I've learned to be open to those lessons.

I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

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

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way.

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

There is no education like adversity.

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Everything is a learning experience.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

I think everybody has ups and downs in their lives. We learn from the biggest disappointments, right? You learn how to be humble to yourself and to be humble to others.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.