Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

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

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.

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

The things that go wrong for you have a lot of potential to become part of your gift to the world.

Every challenge takes you a little deeper and awakens you again and again. Without the challenges, you probably would go to back to sleep. The challenges keep you awake.

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.

The truth will always lead you to a better place and a bigger place. And every single setback, every single one, has led me - not in my time, but in the time that it was meant to happen - to a place that I never in a million years could have imagined that I could go or become.

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

The Samurai always has to rise and move on, because new challenges will come.

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.

Life is about challenges and how we face up to them and the attitude we take into every day life so hopefully we'll be able to motivate people to do more with their life.

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

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.

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

People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.

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.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome.

Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.

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

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.