Pema Chodron Quotes

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.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

Cherish your mistakes, and you won't keep making them over and over again. It's the same with heartbreaks and girls and everything else. Cherish them, and they'll put some wealth in you.

You grow, you mature, you live, and you learn. You get a little wiser, and you learn better ways to handle things.

You mature, you learn things.

I have learned a lot over the years. I have learned how best to use my attributes. That comes with a bit of knowledge and a bit of wisdom.

Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.

Use your past as one of your mentors.

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

I learned from my past.

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.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

Everything is an experience. You learn something different from everything you do.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

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

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

Life is a university, and you never graduate. Accept that whatever happens to you, no matter how terrible, is there to teach you. Your job is to learn and do what you have to.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.