Quotes About Challenges

I didn't know anything about perimenopause, including that I was in it, until I had already been in it for years, despite having an array of hallmark impacts: painful cystic acne, hot flashes, night sweats, anxiety, depression including a resurgence of my suicidality, menstrual changes, digestive issues, body-composition shifts, an increase in headaches and other kinds of pain, exhaustion, and some serious cognitive challenges.

Menopause isn't Cocoon. Sorry.

As in puberty,] There will be tears. And anger. And tragically unfortunate haircuts.

Having a bunch of arghful or superdemanding life stuff, all while our biochemistry is flying up and down like a haunted elevator or radically changing to a kind of hormonal makeup we haven't had for more than a week at a time since we were kids—no shit that can have an impact on our mental health.

Wann, endlich, wird diese Seite auch für deutsche Leser benutzerfreundlich? kann doch nicht so schwer sein.

But the thing about having kids is: you can't go to pieces; you just have to keep going.

it's extremely hard work looking after a toddler and a baby all day, and it doesn't stop. When Jeremy comes home at the end of the day he wants to put his feet up and be nurtured

The trouble with trying to go out with people when you get older is that everything becomes so loaded.

It seems wrong and unfair that Christmas, with its stressful and unmanageable financial and emotional challenges, should first be forced upon one wholly against one's will, then rudely snatched away just when one is starting to get into it.

Die Dating-Welt ist ein verdammter Stellungskrieg, wo nur geblufft wird und niemand wirklich weiterkommt. Angeblich läuft alles nach bestimmten Spielregeln ab, aber so genau kennt die keiner - und deshalb spielt jeder nach den eigenen Regeln. Und weil du die Regeln des anderen nicht kennst, fällst du immer wieder auf die Schnauze. Woher sollst du sie auch wissen? Es sagt dir ja keiner was.

Backlash, actually, by Susan Faludi

Ce qui est un vrai succès dans la vie d'adulte, ce n'est pas de gagner tout le temps, mais d'être capable de gérer l'échec.

It seems wrong and unfair that Christmas, with its stressful and unmanageable financial and emotional challenges, should first be forced upon one wholly against one's will, then rudely snatched away just when one is starting to get into it.

I sat, head down, quivering furiously at their inferences of female sell-by dates and life as game of musical chairs where girls without a chair/man when the music stops/they pass thirty are 'out.' Huh. As if.

Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me…

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road.

My favorite quote: Life's a daring adventure, or nothing. —Helen Keller, who lived life to the fullest, despite the most challenging of handicaps.