Learning From Adversity Quotes

“Living is a process of developing oneself. Without experiencing pain from disconcerting periods of our lives, we would be different person, perhaps a lesser person.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A lifelong learner is a lifelong winner.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“When you fall short of your goals and dreams ask yourself is it your mindset, perspective, expectations,
effort, approach, acceptance, company or a blend of these that needs to change.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“We all have scars. If we embrace them and choose to learn from them, they will make our lives more interesting, and they will gift us with deeper perception.”
― Diamante Lavendar, Finding Hope in the Darkness of Grief: Spiritual Insights Expressed Through Art, Poetry and Prose

“I am thankful to the Lord for my redemption. I was once lost, now I am saved by grace.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Using reason without applying it to experience only leads to theoretical illusions. Ideas derived from real world experiences lead to acquisition of knowledge, and the accumulation of time-tested principles leads to wisdom.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Every person fails, nobody achieves everything that he or she set out to achieve. Nobody, regardless of how many personal triumphs they enjoy, no matter how rich or powerful they become, goes through life without encountering failure. You cannot fail unless a person valiantly tries to accomplish a task. The most audacious person readily attempts difficult projects, despite feeling uncertain if they can prevail. Successful people exhibit the character to respond positively to failure. Some failures prove instrumental in altering a person’s outlook, and their revised perspective leads to brilliant successes”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“when you really realize how you have lived your life, you indeed realize how you must live your life. It is mostly they that have least time to ponder always who always find time to wonder.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Bitter wisdom is better than sweet folly.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“There is more than one road to spiritual salvation. We discover a philosophical way of living by encountering the world, culling knowledge from all available resources, and thinking reverently about life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“I cannot shun the past because it contains information that is useful to script future goals. Looking back into the opaque window of reductive retrospect, what essential opportunities exist today that beckon one to seek with unrestrained enthusiasm? What iridescent signals flare from our conceptual self that if we heedlessly ignore their luminous summons, such deliberate acts of omission will suture the apex of our souls, relegating us to the dreaded curse of mucking along in an ordinary life stalled out by our overweening fear of estrangement?”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Learn well and play well.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Each of us wages a private battle to thrive. Whenever a person fully immerses oneself in life’s aromatic flower garden of pleasures and encounters life’s warship of armor-plated rigors, they blend and bend to make reasonable accommodations for surviving. Scripted and unscripted encounters with superior militant forces bruise us mightily and eventually cut us to the core. Every person’s life contains a minefield of obstacles that function as potential barriers to achieving our ultimate manifestation. The expended labor of continuously hefting oneself over one contentious hurdle after another is what leads a conscientious person onto the path of needing to write in order to create emotional poultices to ameliorate painful wounds.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Personal experiences that disrupt stale routines result in the phenomena of cognitive dissiliency, jolting our minds and enhancing our ability to internalizing new information.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We are born with the innate capacity to express empathy. Experiencing our own cuts and bruises, encountering our own difficulties and disappointments, expands our cognitive world and rouses the universal desire to understand and comfort other people in pain.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.”
― Camus Albert

“The best education we can ever receive is from the University of Adversity. It's the only institute of learning that rewards us when we fail.”
― Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence