Difficult Experiences Quotes

• Through difficult experiences, life sometimes becomes more meaningful.

  Dalai Lama

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Sometimes

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom”, p.15, HarperCollins UK

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Good Morning, Adversity

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.180, Penguin

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• I would have to say that my divorce was an incredibly difficult experience in my life, but I am truly thankful for it. It made me a stronger and better person.

  Sebastian Roche

  Divorce, Stronger, Better Person

  Interview with Robert Piper, nicheandnook.com. August 24, 2015.

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• Know that however difficult experiences may be,
  they are part of the truth you seek.

  Tarthang Tulku

  May, Difficult, Knows

  Tarthang Tulku (1981). “Hidden mind of freedom”, Dharma Pub

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• I learned from my parents to do my best to not react to negative emotions. I try to think about what has happened and find the lessons that can be learned from these difficult experiences. I try to deal with these negative emotions right away because, if they stay inside, they can hurt and do a lot of damage. I release them as soon as possible so I can be free.

  Yanni

  Hurt, Thinking, Parent

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• I met an American lady many years ago, much distant. Then I told her about my own difficult experiences and I showed some genuine concern. She responded, "Why are you so concerned about me?" We need more patience. At a fundamental level, we are the same human brothers and sisters. Then forget it. The human mind is very strange. Like that.

  Dalai Lama

  Brother, Years, Genuine Concern

  Source: www.opti-mystical.com

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• Losing someone we love, or the fear of losing someone we love one day is a difficult experience and we can all relate to it. None of us are an exception to this reality.

  Aamir Khan

  Reality, Losing Someone, One Day

  Source: www.danielpillai.com

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• To go see a band in a big venue is a difficult experience. I don't really like that too much. I'm not a guy who puts on iTunes and goes, "Oh, what's hot!" I don't need to.

  Andy Summers

  Guy, Hot, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly a second thought grasp anxiously for a partner. In marriage they seek a substitute for the security of the family of origin and an escape from aloneness. What they do not realize is that moving so quickly from one family to another, they make it easy to transfer to the new marriage all their difficult experiences in the family of origin.

  Augustus

  Moving, Struggle, Sacrifice

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• But theatre is always a difficult experience.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Theatre, Difficult

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• ~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It's always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.~

  Nicole Kidman

  Children, Pain, Struggle

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• And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.

  Bob Schieffer

  Husband, Father, Practice

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• After all dying is one of the most profound and difficult experiences we have.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Profound, Dying, Difficult

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

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