Quotes About Challenge

Lucy shivered and went on again. 'This is an adventure,' she thought. 'You can't have an adventure if you stop in the middle.

Human life – an Everest that all sorts of thoughts and desires are trying to climb.

Only with (from) bad no good can come.

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

Who rides on a tiger can never dismount; asleep on an elephant, that is repose.

Willing to be reckless. If you can't be that, what's the point of the whole thing?

There is no faster way to harden my determination than to assume I will fail at something.

There are proverbs about frying pans and fires that I might have quoted to myself, but I preferred to adapt a different one to my purposes: better the devil that would attack everyone impartially than the devil specifically looking to kill us.

I had rather face wild beasts and diseases than the perils of civilization." There is a proverb, which Tom was kind enough not to voice: be careful what you wish for. Unfortunately, not only did I get it, but so did those around me.

There's a bit of difference between swimming in shark-infested water because you're trying to retrieve something from the bottom, and staying in just because you're already there and haven't been eaten yet.

It is not easy to fling oneself down stairs in a skirt; there is always the risk that you will tangle your legs and go headlong. But I made it.

I therefore had only enough fear to make myself terrified — not enough to turn back

I set to work making a place for myself in Society, even if it was not the place Society intended for me.

Hvis jeg ikke havde været så heldig at falde så dybt ned i min sygdom, ville jeg måske ikke have haft styrke til at føre denne konfrontation med mig selv til ende.

I was taught the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

appreciating the upside doesn't negate the hazards.

This isn't always possible, but train yourself to move toward discomfort. Put yourself in situations that feel scary and intimidating—that's where the figureoutable magic is!

You never get stronger if you only do easy things. I didn't want fear to calcify in my bones. I refuse to energetically shrink down into a smaller, less capable me. Just because I made a mistake and messed up didn't mean I was going to give up.

To resist metaphor is very difficult because you have to actually endure the thing itself.

the bridge appears when you walk across it—that

Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days don't last forever, you know. But I'll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that.

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

The fourth function is always life's great problem:

Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life.