Pema Chodron Quotes

A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth.

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

Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love.

Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

Just because the road ahead is long, is no reason to slow down. Just because there is much work to be done, is no reason to get discouraged. It is a reason to get started, to grow, to find new ways, to reach within yourself and discover strength, commitment, and determination. The road ahead is long and difficult, but it’s filled with opportunity. Start what needs starting. Finish what needs finishing. Get on the road. Stay on the road. Don’t give up.

I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.

I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.

Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment.

I want to be one that is willing to do things that are not easy but that need to be done.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are.

Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.

Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.

The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.