Quotes About Challenges

The problem with friends and family is that they know us as we are. They are invested in maintaining us as we are.

When we turn pro, we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.

We know that if we embrace our ideals, we must prove worthy of them. And that scares the hell out of us.

You're where you wanted to be, aren't you? So you're taking a few blows. That's the price for being in the arena and not on the sidelines. Stop complaining and be grateful. That

From what I've seen, the operations of war are constituted less of glorious attacks and valiant defences and more of an ongoing succession of mundane and often excruciating balls-ups.

The professional endures adversity. He lets the birdshit splash down on his slicker, remembering that it comes clean with a heavy-duty hosing. He himself, his creative center, cannot be buried, even beneath a mountain of guano. His core is bulletproof. Nothing can touch it unless he lets it.

I sometimes thought to myself, Steve, you've got it lucky now, no distractions, you can focus full-time. What are you gonna do when life gets complicated again?

Depression and anxiety may be real. But they can also be Resistance.

He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.

RESISTANCE IS INTERNAL Resistance seems to come from outside ourselves. We locate it in spouses, jobs, bosses, kids. Peripheral opponents, as Pat Riley used to say when he coached the Los Angeles Lakers. Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. Resistance is the enemy within.

RESISTANCE IS UNIVERSAL We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

They peck a man's asshole out, though God only knows why.

I am many things. I don't fit in any box. I'm Israeli, I'm Palestinian, I'm Arab, I'm Muslim, I'm a woman, a mother, and I am enjoying my life as an Israeli but cannot turn my back on my heritage. Is there a point when we will be able to move on?

Climate is so full of surprises, it might even surprise us with a hidden stability. Counting on that, though, would be like playing Russian roulette with all the chambers loaded but one.

You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole—like the world, or the person you loved.

I'm convinced that the deck is so stacked that only a certain number can get through. I happened to be one of that certain number. That's all.

It's the best of jobs. It's the most difficult of jobs. It can bring you the greatest joy. It can cause the greatest pain. There is nothing as fulfilling and exhilarating. There's nothing so depleting and exhausting. No area of your life can make you feel more like a success when everything is going well. No area of your life can make you feel more like a failure when things go wrong.

Even if you have the most perfect marriage ever known to man, the enemy will still try to tear down the fence and destroy it by one means or another.

Thank You, Lord, that You are with me in everything that I face. No matter what comes against me, You are greater and more powerful. I ask You to be with me in the things I face today. I praise You and Your greatness in the midst of all that seems large and looming in my life.

Many difficult things that happen in a marriage relationship are actually part of the enemy's plan set up for its demise.

During the first 14 of the 40 years Michael and I have been married, we experienced great strife and misery because we tried to do things in the flesh and not in the spirit.

Republicans had promised for decades to control spending, and when given a chance, they decided it was easier to just spend more.

Mounting Fears‡

Growing up had made her crabby, which happens to the best of us.