Quotes About Challenge

It's fun to horse around with danger.

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see a lot of people doing it.

I was determined to run, but my body thought otherwise. (Kinsey Millhone)

There was a certain, subterranean moral code in play, but surely, I could think of a way around that old thing.

Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah of Princeton University makes the point that, "In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you are playing.

That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love. ~Page 133.

impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love.

The truth may set you free, but first it will shatter the safe, sweet way you live.

Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls into question the structure of patriarchy itself.

You do your rebellions any way you can.

Danger, I realized, was a thing you got used to.

When you can't go forward and you can't go backward and you can't stay where you are without killing off what is deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.

We must wake up, journey, name, challenge, shed, reclaim, ground, and heal.

Still, I couldn't let the matter go entirely—T. Ray thinking I was so desperate I would invent an invasion of bees to get attention. Which is how I got the bright idea of catching a jar of these bees, presenting them to T. Ray, and saying, "Now who's making things up?

He's over your head!" He was, but naturally I'd flung myself into the Sea of Voltaire anyway and emerged with nothing more than several aphorisms.

Some truths seemed insoluble, stones that couldn't be swallowed.

I realized it was conceivable that Ann and I both, in our own way, were experiencing a crisis, which according to its definition is: (1) a crucial stage or turning point, and (2) an unstable or precarious situation. At the very least

A shiver ran through me. Leave your cage. It had been a month and a half since the sickness had first appeared in the city.

Don't be telling me--can't be done. That's some god damney white talk, that's what that is.

Plus, there were the children to consider. They were, for me, the biggest concern of all...But what if I challenged the institution? Not setting the proper and accepted religious example for them conjured up images of the bad mother, the worst mother. Yet wouldn't the example of a mother being true to her journey, taking a stand against patriarchy, and questing for spiritual meaning and wholeness, even when it meant exiting the circles of orthodoxy, be a worthwhile example?

That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the world is a great big log on the fires of love.

That's how it turned out in the end, but in the first months after my return from California, we experienced doubt and tension. I woke every day to uncertainty about my marriage.

Years later a friend said to me, "When a conventional wife with a conventional husband experiences a feminist awakening, there is bound to be a marital explosion.

Life had taken a mallet to me.