Learning From Our Struggles 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

“It is in the more muddled moments of my life, that i become painfully aware of my issues. When nothing is going right, when life gets away from me. When i feel like life is living me, instead of me, living life. It's a difficult place be, but it's also where the seeds of change, often take root. And from those roots, a wellspring of hope and positive transformation, blooms.”
― Jaeda DeWalt

“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!

“Examination of our past is never time-wasting. Reverberations from the past provide learning rubrics for living today.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“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

“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

“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

“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