Quotes About Challenge

That is why we need a great deal of courage to challenge our own beliefs. Because even if we know we didn't choose all these beliefs, it is also true that we agreed to all of them. The agreement is so strong that even if we understand the concept of it not being true, we feel the blame, the guilt, and the shame that occur if we go against these rules.

First, we need to accept that we're afraid. Fear often runs under the radar, and only our actions give us a clue. Challenging fear means finding its source and then looking deeper.

it was considered a warrior's greatest challenge to rise beyond his own beliefs. Now it is seen as a tactless assault against one's identity. In my day, we would chase anger to its borders, cutting through thorn and weed until we found our way to the open fields of awareness.

Your reaction comes from a belief that is deep inside you. The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it becomes a routine for you. You are conditioned to be a certain way. And that is the challenge: to change your normal reactions, to change your routine, to take a risk and make different choices. If the consequence is not what you want, change it again and again until you finally get the result you want.

Whatever goes against the Book of Law will make you feel a funny sensation in your solar plexus, and it's called fear. Breaking the rules in the Book of Law opens your emotional wounds, and your reaction is to create emotional poison. Because everything that is in the Book of Law has to be true, anything that challenges what you believe is going to make you feel unsafe. Even if the Book of Law is wrong, it makes you feel safe.

That is why you cannot change yourself just by wishing to change. No, you need to really challenge what you believe you are, especially the beliefs that limit the expression of your life. You need to challenge every belief that you use to judge yourself, to reject yourself, to make yourself little.

Whatever goes against the Book of Law will make you feel a funny sensation in your solar plexus, and it's called fear. Breaking the rules in the Book of Law opens your emotional wounds, and your reaction is to create emotional poison. Because everything that is in the Book of Law has to be true, anything that challenges what you believe is going to make you feel unsafe.

That is why we need a great deal of courage to challenge our own beliefs.

Dragons were a problem sometimes, but they only came on Tuesdays, so you could work around them.

needs must when the devil drives

It's a measure of how far I've come that I didn't bother to say, This is impossible. I'd gotten the hang of it now. -Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (comics adaptation by Mike Carey and Glenn Fabry)

It wasn't what I was expecting, but like I've always said, if life gives you lemmings, jump off a cliff.

pitching deck of an icebreaker.

The only consolation was that - to the religious mind - adversity is good for the soul.

Kapanpun seseorang berfikir segalanya bisa jauh lebih buruk, tampaknya Sang Pencipta melihatnya sebagai sebuah tantangan pribadi.

Have you never fantasized about facing him as an equal?

Setiap orang bisa membunuh dengan darah panas, tanpa akal sehat. Tapi akal sehat adalah yang diminta sang raja pembunuh. Akal sehat mengatakan kepada Zulaika bahwa ia tidak mungkin berhasil dalam dua serangan melawan laki-laki yang jauh lebih besar dan lebih kuat dari padanya.

The trouble is, writing the damn thing is like unscrewing your skull and pouring the contents of your brain into an empty tank. The tank has a shape, more or less - has more or less defined edges, a bottom and sides. But what it mostly has is volume: a hungry space I've somehow got to fill.

So what I'm getting at is this. Okay, maybe it's cold in the grave. Maybe you come out of the light and you think, Fuck your mother, this is bad. This is worse than anything I would have guessed. But the trick is to clench your teeth, get a running start and dive. When I hit that other country, from whose bourne no traveller back-pedals, I'm going to be moving fast. I'm gambling that the first ten seconds or so will be the worst.

If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.

i.mpossible.

Zach Harriman was home. Not worried about watching his back now. Just thinking that the Bads better watch theirs. He wasn't worried about them chasing him, not anymore. From now on, he was chasing them.

Sometimes what mattered most in sports was overcoming something. It brought out the best in you.

There was no way to solve a problem for people who didn't know they had one.