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Quotes About Challenge

Podemos toparnos con un perro de lanas o con un furioso perro guardián, pero lo interesante es: ¿qué ocurre a continuación?
~ Pema Chodron
We would practice as if a big snake had just landed in our lap.
~ Pema Chodron
you'll eventually come to feel like you're in a battle with reality and reality is always winning.
~ Pema Chodron
But there is that feeling. And there's always another challenge, and that keeps us humble. Life knocks you off your pedestal.
~ Pema Chodron
AS A SPECIES, we should never underestimate our low tolerance for discomfort.
~ Pema Chodron
If we always stay in that narrow zone, how are we going to grow?
~ Pema Chodron
Each day, we're given many opportunities to open up or shut down. The most precious opportunity presents itself when we come to the place where we think we can't handle whatever is happening.
~ Pema Chodron
We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha's opinion, to train in staying open and curious - to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs - is the best use of our human lives.
~ Pema Chodron
Hell is just resistance to life.
~ Pema Chodron
Es un buen libro y, por lo tanto, debería intentar vendérselo a los habitantes de Hardborough. No lo entenderán, pero será mejor así. Entender las cosas hace que la mente se vuelva perezosa.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Open the doors, the Russians say, here comes trouble. On
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Courage and endurance are useless if they are never tested
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
El corage y la perseverancia son inútiles si no se ponen a prueba
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
The real challenge of life was not fulfilling one's dreams, but being willing to give them up for the sake of a greater call.
~ Unknown
Life is a mess - a random muddle. Which is exactly why one is drawn to improving on it.
~ Penelope Lively
You plot, daily. Face down circumstance. Measure out your life with...not coffee spoons--pills. Line them up with breakfast, lunch, supper. Never mind mermaids, and lilacs in bloom, and all that stuff. He hadn't a clue.
~ Penelope Lively
João Evangelista estava farto de subdesenvolvimento.
~ Unknown
If you try to engineer all of the risk out of a trade, it will only surface somewhere else when it is least welcome.
~ Unknown
Remember, you will never change what you permit, and never challenge what you allow.
~ Unknown
There is always a Ziklag battle before a Zion victory.
~ Unknown
You throw yourself on the world like turf on a fire.
~ Peter Behrens
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
~ Peter Benchley
That's the only hitch in learning: it's humbling. The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know. Anyway, all that's a long way around saying that it's crazy to do things just to prove you can do 'em. The more you learn, the more you'll find yourself doing things you never thought you could do in a million years.
~ Peter Benchley
Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome.
~ Peter David