Quotes About Challenge

It doesn't matter that something you've done before worked out well. Your last piece is never going to write your next one for you.

There are two ways to beat the cruelty of a harsh environment: You can become stronger or you can become smarter.

The worst thing about adultery was that it made you see your life for what it was: something that was nearly impossible to escape.

The right choice was usually the more difficult one.

Hard things are hard.

The greatest risk there is. The risk of parenthood. You're a mother.

It's a journey or it's a battle—you pick what you want to call it—but someday soon, we are going to triumph. We are all going to call ourselves survivors.

He knew he was limited, and he hated it.

If a theme runs through the history of Florida, it is this: something's great, and someone comes along to mess it up.

Between those times we'll fight to live.

Life just isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke.

It's decidedly bizzare, when the Worst Thing hppens and you find yourself still conscious, still breathing.

A baby opens you up, is the problem. No way around it unless you want to pay someone else to have it for you. There's before and there's after. To live in your body before is one thing. To live in your body after is another. Some deal by attempting to micromanage; some go crazy; some zone right the hell on out. Or all of the above.

We were knee deep in a river of crap,and I was wearing metaphorical flip-flops. -Jason

What happens to us is not as important as how we respond.

Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar. 

Marathon is life. And life is where you progress.

Mr. Granby next time you two have

What is needed is just the courage to face inconsistencies and to avoid running away from them just because "that's the way it was always done".

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

I will make you shorter by the head.

There is nothing more galling than for a stupid man to be lording it over us women merely because of his masculinity. Let him stew. It will not be he who solves this puzzle, be sure.

To judge by the many crossings-out and the scribbles that adorned the discarded sheets, several of which had been screwed into balls by a frustrated hand and flung against the opposite wall, the muse this chill March morning was proving recalcitrant.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in 't.