Quotes About Challenge

Violence is never the answer but sometimes, like with cockroaches, it is the only possible response.

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

Paul thought of how they'd kept delaying buying plane tickets to visit his parents in Taiwan - in December, which was next month, he knew - as if in tacit understanding that their relationship wouldn't last that long. Paul felt himself trying to interpret the situation, as if there was a problem to be solved, but there didn't seem to be anything, or maybe there was, but he was three or four skill sets away from comprehension, like an amoeba trying to create a personal webpage using CSS.

You can't just give up on a movie during the dark night of the soul, he'd said. What's that? I asked. That's the point in a film when all hope is lost and the protagonists must dig deeper than ever before to prevail against the odds stacked against them.

Having counter-thoughts ready makes it easier to challenge them, once mindfulness has brought them to your attention.

The act of challenging schemas can take on the warrior spirit of wrathful compassion

Challenge those thoughts. Remind yourself that they distort the way things really are.

one focus for healing is to challenge your fears and, to the extent that they have held you back, gain more freedom in your activities.

Becoming aware of these emotional habits is the first step, because unless we can catch and challenge them as they are triggered by the events of our lives, they will dictate how we perceive and react.

Like investigation, healthy doubt arises from the urge to know what is true--it challenges assumptions or the status quo in service of healing and freedom. In contrast, unhealthy doubt arises from fear or aversion, and it questions one's own basic potential or worth, or the value of another.

to failure." Playing it safe requires that we avoid risky situations—which covers pretty much all of life.

she and trouble knew each other rather intimately. No reason the end of the war would stop such a seemingly natural pairing, she supposed.' - Chapt 1, The Ghosts of Paris, Tara Moss

If you accept failure, then you will identify with being defeated.

These included the top of Mount Everest and up the chief's rear passage.

just because mindfulness is simple does not mean that it is easy.

The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.

Life's a bitch. This is true. But she's my bitch.

Poverty is not the stepchild of the Great Recession; poverty has always been a part of American life.

There are too many loose ends in the world in need of knots.

People say, that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you, doesn't kill you.

Love is a maze.Once you get in it, you're pretty much trapped.

Daddy said, "At some point you will come to accept your limitations." "Do you accept yours?" I asked, with challenge in my voice. "But of course, Ladybug. That's what marriage teaches you.

the devil stays busy.

There is no weight like the burden of a body.