Krista Tippett Quotes

Nothing in life has happened to you. It's happened for you. Every disappointment. Every wrong. Even every closed door has helped make you into who you are.

This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives.

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

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

I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you.

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three things in chief, an' they're the places where life sets us down, an' the folks life knocks us up against, an' -- not the things ye get, but the things ye don't get.

It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.

It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson.

Everything that happens helps you grow, even if its hard to see right now.

Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now. When we face our challenges with faith, prepared to learn, willing to make changes, and if necessary, to let go, we are demanding our power be turned on.

When you choose to overcome something that could paralyze people, you have the choice to either let that happen or use that as a stepping-stone to something new and different in the future.

You could either be trapped by what was going on around you, or you could find a way out. I think that everything, even if it is scary or good, comes into our life to help elevate and expand us as human beings.

You don't overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

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

The more challenges you face in life, the more of life you experience - this lived experience gives one the 'influence' to impact others' lives.

It's all the stuff I've been through in my life. From family struggles, people doubting me, things I went through as a child and going to prison, they all played a factor in who I am today. It really made me a better person. Going through those situations can make or break you as a human being.

Disappointment builds character and strength.

When you face any adversity in life those are the kind of lessons you can take and remember. Those are the things that are going to help me not just in football but in life, which is priceless.

You have to go through the lows to go through the highs as well. It's something that's made me into a man.

It has been a journey of ups and downs. There have been moments of immense joy and heartbreaks. Everything I have gone through has made me better.