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Quotes About Challenge

Why did you go towards the monster when he wanted to eat you up instead of running away? Now he's swallowed you. Today you're still a monk, but tomorrow you'll be a turd.
~ Wu Cheng'en
La adversidad es una carambola imposible. Una chuza robada por el diablo. Un triste logaritmo inoperante. Pienso que la conozco, y ella a mí, pero seguro estoy exagerando. Dudo que sea digno de que La Adversidad me vea de frente y pronuncie mi nombre.
~ Xavier Velasco
La cuerda floja crea un hábito que ni el matrimonio arregla.
~ Xavier Velasco
Here, too, is a maxim to engrave upon the memory: in charging a superior force, never to leave a difficult tract of ground in the rear of your attack, since there is all the difference in the world between a stumble in flight and a stumble in pursuit.
~ Xenophon
Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
~ Yann Martel
It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
~ Yann Martel
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
~ Yann Martel
I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
~ Yann Martel
I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
~ Yann Martel
I felt like I was beating a rainbow to death.
~ Yann Martel
If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe? Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
~ Yann Martel
Cinta sulit dipercaya, tanyakan pada siapapun yang sedang jatuh cinta. Kehidupan ini juga sulit dipercaya, tanyakan pada ilmuwan manapun. Tuhan juga sulit dipercaya, tanyakan pada siapapun yang memercayainya. Kenapa Anda tidak menerima hal-hal yang sulit dipercaya?
~ Yann Martel
Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer.
~ Yann Martel
Strach to jedyny prawdziwy przeciwnik ?ycia.
~ Yann Martel
Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others.
~ Yann Martel
At last I managed to haul it aboard. It was over three feet long. The bucket was useless. It would fit the dorado like a hat.
~ Yann Martel
Machen Sie weiter, bis das Tier, das Ihnen zusetzt - ob Tiger, ob Rhinozeros - grün vor Seekranheit ist. Sie müssen hören, wie es sich die Seele aus dem Leibe spuckt.
~ Yann Martel
I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I have to turn miracle into routine.
~ Yann Martel
Now comes the difficult part: you must provoke the animal that is afflicting you. Tiger, rhinoceros, ostrich, wild boar, brown bear- no matter the beast, you must get its goat.
~ Yann Martel
Cuesta creer que existe el amor, si no pregúnteselo a cualquier amante. Cuesta creer que existe la vida, si no pregúnteselo a cualquier científico. Cuesta creer que existe Dios, si no pregúnteselo a cualquier creyente. ¿Qué problema tienen con lo que cuesta creer?
~ Yann Martel
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
~ Yann Martel
attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.
~ Yann Martel
The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.
~ Christopher Hitchens
In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.
~ Christopher Hitchens