Quotes About Challenges

It had never fully occurred to Jean Louise that she was a girl: her life had been one of reckless, pummeling activity; fighting, football, climbing, keeping up with Jem, and besting anyone her own age in any contest requiring physical prowess. When she was calm enough to listen, she considered that a cruel practical joke had been played upon her: she must now go into a world of femininity, a world she despised, could not comprehend nor defend herself against, a world that did not want her.

I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days.

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win," Atticus said.

We could do nothing to please her . If I said as sunnily as I could, 'Hey, Mrs Dubose,' I would receive for an answer, 'Don't you say hey to me, you ugly girl! You say good afternoon, Mrs Dubose!

Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.

but things like long life 'n' good health, 'n' passin' six-weeks tests . . .

Everybody did; most of the first grade had failed it last year.

Indeed, in many situations wisdom lies in being strategic rather than spontaneous. This is especially true when we're dealing with a difficult person, a hot issue, or a tense situation. The enormous challenge is to make wise decisions about how and when to say what to whom, and even before that, to know what we really want to say and what we hope to accomplish by saying it.

But here is the real point when it comes to the challenge of apologies in family relationships. If our intention is to have a better relationship, we need to be our best and most mature self, rather than reacting to the other person's reactivity. Also, some of the other person's complaints will be true, since we can't possibly get it right all the time.

Of course marriage isn't the solution to all life's ills. It can bring boatfuls of ills, if one is unlucky - think how unhappy people can be, yoked together.

If everything turned out just the way everybody expected, life would be exceedingly dull, and learning in any useful sense simply would not occur.

living in the same house, married to the same woman, doing the same things in the same way until arthritis stiffened him, cataracts dimmed him, muscles failed and cancers ate him.

Women! They insist on mixing everything up together. Perhaps they operate better that way, but it is very hard on those of us who find that keeping emotion and logic separate produces sounder thinking.

Morning sickness and bank robbery doesn't mix well.

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.

The world is an inherently unfair place.

Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.

It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.

I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do is keep those few reasons nicely polished.

There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes.

When you're surrounded by endless possibilities, one of the hardest things you can do is pass them up.

Of course, they're not clowning around trying to make me laugh. They're doing their best to live very serious lives, and they just happen to fall down sometimes. I think that's cool.

There are all kinds of things we have to deal with in life," Eri finally said. "And one thing always seems to connect with another. You try to solve one problem, only to find that another one you hadn't anticipated arises instead. It's not that easy to get free of them.