Quotes About Learning

We all have limitations. They are worth befriending. They teach us a lot. They can show us what we most need to pay attention to and honor. They become our cutting edge for learning and growing and gentling ourselves into the present moment as it is.

The word discipline comes from disciple, someone who is in a position to learn.

In the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.

There are no drugs that will make you immune to stress or to pain or that will by themselves magically solve your life's problems or promote healing. It will take conscious effort on your part to move in a direction of healing and inner peace. This means learning to work with the very stress and pain that is causing you to suffer.

Knowing that we don't know is just as important, if not more so, than anything else we might know.

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Parenting and family life can be a perfect field for mindfulness practice, but it's not for the weak-hearted, the selfish or lazy, or the hopelessly romantic. Parenting is a mirror that forces you to look at yourself. If you can learn from what you observe, you just may have a chance to keep growing yourself.

The present is the only time that we have to know anything. It is the only time we have to perceive, to learn, to act, to change, to heal, to love.

It is only when the mind is open and receptive that learning and seeing and change can occur.

Healing implies the possibility for us to relate differently to illness, disability, even death, as we learn to see with eyes of wholeness. Healing is coming to terms with things as they are.

Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.

When a faith stubbornly maintained comes into contact with learning, the product of that encounter is always something magnificent, whether it be for good or ill.

Help our response, Lord, not to be, "WHAT are You doing?!" Instead, give us the perspective to ask, "Lord, what would You teach?

We will remember the way things used to be, and teach our children to be better than us. The generations that follow will remember with us. In that day, we will all be free

The key is putting into practice what God has taught you through His Word.

Maybe you should stop putting so much faith into what you read in books.

Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.

Love is what we were borne with. Fear is what we learned here.

We should always be learning. However, we must be careful not to set aside our faith in the process, because faith actually enhances our ability to learn.

Momma tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied, and that leaves only me to blame, cause Momma tried.

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.

I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.