The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments. What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them. And their race is not to blame for everything—good or bad—that happens in their lives.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you can take action and use it.

If you want a new idea, read an old book.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Man is neither angel nor beast; and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast.