Top 38 Difficult Experiences Quotes
#1. After all dying is one of the most profound and difficult experiences we have.
Meghan O'Rourke
#2. I don't really want to leave anything in life behind. We have bad experiences, we have difficult experiences, but if you leave everything behind, you have no past.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#3. Through difficult experiences, life sometimes becomes more meaningful.
Dalai Lama
#4. Our character was being forged on the anvil of the difficult experiences we were facing. We knew that if we remained committed to God's purposes for us, we would be prepared to face the future.
George Foster
#5. Know that however difficult experiences may be,
they are part of the truth you seek.
Tarthang Tulku
#6. I still love how Phil Spector turned teenage experiences into wonderful symphonies, but I find it a little more difficult to put myself in that place.
Joe Goddard
#8. I'm not scared of doing movies that are just about entertainment. I'm not scared of doing movies that are really challenging and cover difficult terrain. I just want good experiences and I want to challenge myself and I want to just keep learning, as an actor.
Joel Edgerton
#9. His life-experiences, and reflections upon them, led Y to believe that the most difficult challenge in life was how to be kind, yet strong. 'To be kind is not enough,' he would say. 'You have to be strong to give to others, and strong to withstand life's fluctuating fortunes.
Arnold Zable
#10. With faith, I know that everything will be taken care of. Even the difficult times become learning experiences to help make my faith stronger.
Torii Hunter
#11. See your hard times through the spectacles of your experiences. They, too, shall pass away.
Ogwo David Emenike
#12. Have you ever really wanted to be able to do something, but you came across a roadblock of some kind?
You have a difficult choice. I made that choice once and it changed my whole life, by giving me experiences I never would have had if I took the easy street and had not tried.
Deanie Humphrys-Dunne
#13. Real Love for ourselves by definition includes every aspect of our lives - the good, the bad, the difficult, the challenging past, the uncertain future, as well as all the shameful, upsetting experiences and encounters we'd just as soon forget.
Sharon Salzberg
#14. A man who experiences difficult trials usually receives special visions
Sunday Adelaja
#15. What I do know, at least what I think I have learned from my experiences in business, is that when there is a rush for everyone to do the same thing, it becomes more difficult to do. Not easier. Harder.
Mark Cuban
#16. Until you make peace with your difficult memories, that pain will continue to bleed into your current and future experiences.
Iyanla Vanzant
#17. Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character, and increase our compassion for others.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#18. Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.
Jeb Bush
#19. Such individuals lead vigorous lives, are open to a variety of experiences, keep on learning until the day they die, and have strong ties and commitments to other people and to the environment in which they live. They enjoy whatever they do, even if tedious or difficult; they are hardly ever bored,
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#20. To direct actors is difficult. To direct actors in another language is more difficult, but directing non-actors in another language is one of the craziest things that I have done and one of the most rewarding experiences I have had.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#21. One of the most difficult things I ever did was learn to support myself through my whole range of emotional experiences without running away.
Vironika Tugaleva
#22. People have said that my films are very difficult to watch, that they're experiences you are put through rather than ones you enjoy, and it's true.
John Cassavetes
#23. If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did, exactly because it proves such a difficult emotion to manage.
Zadie Smith
#24. There was only a language of families, a tongue woven from a lifetime of shared experiences. Its vocabulary consisted of gestures and curt sentences, incomprehensible to all outsiders. Inside, it wasn't difficult to translate at all.
Courtney Milan
#25. Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person's shoes. There's no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.
Seth Godin
#26. One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.
Nancy Ruth
#27. It's often difficult to get perspective on your own stories, on your own experiences, without talking them through with someone who is genuinely interested in thinking about them. And that's the key.
Phil Klay
#28. Most therapists grew up struggling to be loved and accepted by others. Because of these early experiences, many of us find it difficult to believe others can be of help to us. We carry this struggle into our adult lives and, inevitably, into our relationships with our clients.
Louis Cozolino
#29. Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.
Plato
#30. I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.
Dominique Moceanu
#31. You learn emotional experiences as much as you learn cognitive experiences, except that they are more unconscious. Sometimes one represses the cognitive component of it, but it's often more difficult to repress the emotional component.
Eric Kandel
#32. In her experience it was very difficult to offer a man affection and kindness without giving him the impression you were also offering a lay.
Joe Hill
#33. Gnosticism has always been difficult to define, largely because it is a system of thought based upon and frequently amended by experiences of nonordinary states of consciousness, and thus it is resistant to theological rigidity.
Stephan A. Hoeller
#34. The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but, on the contrary, very ordinary ones. Charisma is easy; presence, self-remembering, is terribly difficult, and where the real work lies.
Morris Berman
#35. Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.
Eric Cantona
#36. The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#37. In order to believe clients' accounts of trauma, you need to suspend any pre-conceived notions that you have about what is possible and impossible in human experience. As simple as they may sound, it may be difficult to do so.
Aphrodite Matsakis
#38. The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and painful experiences. The point of our lives in this world isn't comfort, but training and preparation for eternity.
Lee Strobel
