A Quote by Erik Spoelstra

Painful experiences can be the most powerful teacher. — © Erik Spoelstra
Painful experiences can be the most powerful teacher.
Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them. Parenting can pose unique challenges for introverted parents, who fear that their own painful experiences will be repeated in their children's lives.
Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.
Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.
Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
Like the lotus flower that is born out of mud, we must honor the darkest parts of ourselves and the most painful of our life’s experiences, because they are what allow us to birth our most beautiful self.
In 'Growing Stronger,' I expose my most painful moments and open my heart, thoughts and person, so that my experiences can inspire alleviation, consolation and decisiveness.
Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.
The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.
Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them.
One could say that everybody in this world has a spiritual teacher. For most people, their losses and disasters represent the teacher; their suffering is the teacher.
About my marriage life, it has been pretty painful, pretty sad. I can't say there was no unpleasantness at all. I can't say it was smooth and happy or anything. There were lot of painful experiences we both went through.
I know that I have in my make-up layers of synthetic experiences, and that the most powerful of my memories are only half true.
A teacher says "I am sowing the seeds of revolution." At that time we cannot imagine how powerful the teacher is, but he certainly derives joy by fulfilling his duty.
I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.
If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought of my poems as meant to be overheard, as I think all of these poems are. It seems to me if you get experience right, even your most painful or humiliating experiences - if you get those experiences right for yourself and make discoveries as you go along and find for them some formal glue - they will be poems for others.
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