Quotes About Challenge

rolf! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there for a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS.

It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that.

I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.

Game over, you say, and I don't know which I take more exception to-- the fact that you say its over, or the fact that you say it's a game.

I am made for running. Because when you run, you could be anyone. You hone yourself into a body, nothing more or less than a body. You respond as a body, to the body. If you are racing to win, you have no thoughts but the body's thoughts, no goals but the body's goals. You obliterate yourself in the name of speed. You negate yourself in order to make it past the finish line.

Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be.

Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it's a game, I know I'm going to lose.

i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.

The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters.

I was sixteen and equipped with the appropriate genitalia, so I cleared that hurdle nicely.

Oh, honey, she says when I'm done with my wallowing, it's like my grandma used to say: Just when you think life's got you in a gutter, a tornado will come along and destroy your house. And then you rebuild? I ask. Well, she never mentioned that part, but I suppose it could happen. I am not cheered up.

It's up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part.

We have defied the day as it was set out for us.

The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest.

But I guess it's just as easy to get lost in the dealing as it is to get lost in the avoidance.

I guess I don't believe these thing can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard.

Curses aren't passive things. They'll fight back.

It's exhausting, trying to make a bad person act good. You can see why it's so much easier for them to be bad.

I need to be doing something, because doing nothing is just as harmful as facing danger head-on.

rofl! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS.)

I fear you may have outmatched me, because now I find these words have nowhere to go. It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show that you tried unless you end up succeeding.

The train comes. If you stay on the tracks, you die. If you jump off the bridge, you die, There's always a train coming eventually.

Just be warned," you said. "Someday you'll ask me to give up something I really love, and then it's going to get ugly.

i'm sure it's going to be a total disaster. but i guess the point is that i'm going to do it anyway.