“Life is like a great teacher..... she will repeat the lesson until you learn.”

“Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.”

“I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated. ”

“To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.”

“Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.”

“No one ever said your life would be easy. The nature of being human makes life for all of us a challenge. The most important thing to consider here is this. Your life is only as challenging as you think it is. Think of challenge as a teacher and yourself the student. It's up to you to figure out what the lesson is to be learned. To learn that lesson and build the strength and courage to face other challenges….”