Quotes About Challenge

I find nothing so singular in life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.

They are unavoidable at this moment, standing, as you do, on the outer verge of your long seclusion, and peopling the world with ugly shapes, which you will soon find to be as unreal as the giants and ogres of a child's story-book. I find nothing so singular in life, as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it. So it will be with what you think so terrible.

confronted them now. When first presented

To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me.

I breakfasted at four [a.m.], was in the saddle at five, and between that hour and 6 p.m. I rode fifty miles over a rough country, unknown to everybody, and only myself for a guide

In the end, his trials with Masako had been the hardest ones...but they weren't really trials or tasks or tests at all: they were just facts that he could do nothing about. And that in itself was probably the real test: his ability to accept something that was completely beyond his control. It made him want to cry.

Knut Haugland spent 101 days in 1947 as the radio operator on the Kon-Tiki, a simple raft that crossed the Pacific Ocean with only a six-man crew. Beyond offering great adventure, the journey exorcised his own demons.

Running had become more of a competition to draw out the best that was in him, as if he were plumbing the depths of his will.

It is okay to be at a place of struggle. Struggle is just another word for growth. Even the most evolved beings find themselves in a place of struggle now and then. In fact, struggle is a sure sign to them that they are expanding; it is their indication of real and important progress. The only one who doesn't struggle is the one who doesn't grow. So if you are struggling right now, see it as a terrific sign — celebrate your struggle.

Walls don't fall without effort.

So what happens when your universe begins to get off balance, and you don't have any experience with bringing it back to center? All you can do is fight a losing battle, waiting for those walls to collapse, and your life to become one huge mystery ashtray.

What's the point of living forever if you can't take a few risks?

His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory.

Sometimes you have to be the monster to survive

This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.

One could say, Ayn, that he has cast himself as Atlas. Which means the slightest shrug can shake the world.

There are no wrong thoughts, only thoughts that need to be worked through and overcome.

What do you do with a textbook case when no one's written the textbook?

Sometimes there are moments when we objectively face the never, and it overwhelms us.

The simpler the solution, the harder it is to arrive at.

As for the other team, there would be much weeping and gnashing of teeth, as the Bible says.

Picking locks was not a skill he had ever cultivated, but he persisted day after day, turning the tip of his talon into different ways of approaching a keyhole. He never tired, and he ever gave up...because if there was any justice in the universe, he wouldn't be trapped here forever.

I'm leaping off a cliff only to discover I can fly... and then realizing there's nowhere to land. Ever. That's what's going on.

she says, "A penny for your thoughts?" I don't feel like sharing my thoughts, so instead I challenge the question. "Really? Is that all they're worth? A penny?" She sighs. "It's just an expression, Caden." "Well, find out when the expression was thought up, and then adjust for inflation." She shakes her head. "Only you would go there, Caden." Then she leaves me to stew in thoughts I refuse to sell.