Quotes About Challenges

A person always has control over how she meets her adversities, and the good news is that the facing of them, one after another, year after year, builds an inner strength that nobody can take away from you.

How glibly and thoughtlessly that phrase 'make us grow' slides off our tongues. As if growth were always a happy, shapely matter: leaves unfurling, blossoms opening, hearts and minds joyously stretching toward more light. Whereas the fact of the matter was, when we asked for growth, we were asking for a mess. Exploding tempers, privately nursed little petri dishes of resentments, insecure stumblings into dangerous new places.

The times are permanently bad…. To imagine a way of life that could be patched up is to think of the cosmos as a vast plumbing affair. To expect others to do what we are unable to do ourselves is truly to believe in miracles."74

I try to cope with everything through humor.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Because the 40s, as writer Barbara Fried so succinctly captures them, are a time when it seems no matter what course one has pursued, "everything is turning gray, drying up or leaving home.

The illusions of the twenties, however, may be essential to infuse our first commitments with excitement and intensity, and to sustain us in those commitments long enough to gain us some experience in living. The

Trying to stabilize—that is what the twenties are all about. The

No two people can possibly coordinate all their developmental crises.

Further discomfort from these new realities afflicts men who expected to reach a certain level by dint of their white maleness but who now have to make room for women and minorities as well as their own generational bulge. The old boy network doesn't help them much anymore.

No matter how different the forms we choose, our concentration during the Trying Twenties is on mastering what we feel we are supposed to do.

Resolving the issues of one passage does not insulate us forever. There will be other tricky channels ahead, and we learn by moving through them. If we pretend the crises of development don't exist, not only will they rise up later and hit with a greater wallop but in the meantime we don't grow.

Near the gardens, Pei stopped and caught her breath. She liked sweet-voiced Song Lee and hoped for the best in dealing with the other sisters, but Pei rememered all too well the different personalities that had affected her life, first at the girls' house, then at the silk factory and sisters' house. Dealing with so many people was often like playing a game of chess. There were so many pieces, all moving in different directions. It was always wise to guard all sides against capture.

we can't hide from it, we are all touched by the madness of it.

haven't been able

It's harder than I imagined, to be alone.

Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it.

Life is like therapy - real expensive and no guarantees.

Life is not tried it is merely survived when you're standing outside the fire

Life is not tried it is merely survived if you're standing outside the fire.

It doesn`t matter who you are,or how good you got things. Sooner or later,shit goes wrong for everybody. Sooner or later,there comes a time when all you want to do is shout Fuck you to the world.

No race has ever been won in the first corner," he said. "But plenty of races have been lost there." I

Ninguna carrera se gana en la primera curva —dijo—. Pero muchas se pierden allí.

we don't live in an ideal world. In our world, surprises sometimes happen, mistakes happen,