Quotes About Challenges

We would screw up our children. It was inevitable. Julie had taught me that you never get the child you want or expect. You get the child you get and you try your best to make sure they turn out to be a decent human being. That was all that mattered. An

Things would be so easy if it wasn't for feelings.

We don't live in a safe world. I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire." True. "Only if I ran out of kindling.

I like problem solving. I like taking a crisis, breaking it into manageable pieces, and finding a solution. I don't like the minutiae. I don't like paperwork." "You

And those who love us most lie to us most of all, because life is a bumpy ride and they want to smooth it out as much as possible.

Sometimes the Universe smiled. Mostly she kicked me in the face, stomped on my ribs once I fell down, and laughed at my pain, but once in a while she smiled. It was Wednesday.

The only people who can have normal are the ones unaffected by all the fucked-up shit that happens around them.

Family," Curran said, putting his arm around me. "Can't live with them, can't kill them.

Jill meant well, but her life was a string of self-created emergencies, which she then cheerfully overcame.

You look like your house burned down," Rene observed. "Just reflecting on the fact that when the Universe punches you in the teeth, it never just lets you fall down. It kicks you in the ribs a couple of times and dumps mud on your head." "If you're lucky, it's mud.

We would screw up our children. It was inevitable. Julie had taught me that you never get the child you want or expect. You get the child you get and you try your best to make sure they turn out to be a decent human being. That was all that mattered.

most of the time being with him was so easy. But when it was difficult, it nearly broke me. I wondered if it was like that for him, too.

Some people awoke to escape their nightmares. I awoke into one.

Who cares about dates? It's when you're under pressure together, that's what counts.

You are not meant to be at peace. We, the human beings, are meant to live life to its fullest. We are meant to experience it all—sadness, disappointment, rage, kindness, joy, love. We are meant to test ourselves. It is painful and frightening, but this is what it means to be alive. You are hiding from life here. This isn't peace. This is a slow, deliberate suicide." He

If you remove adversity, you remove ingenuity and creativity with it. There is no need to strive to make something beautiful or better if it already is.

but lately life had taken a baseball bat to her plans.

I had learned that life was a vicious bitch and people were complicated. They lied to themselves.

Dylan Thomas's

Sometimes life just kept punching you in the teeth, no matter how many times you got up.

Okay," Juke said. "Your horse is a donkey, your poodle is a giant wolf breed, and your boyfriend is whatever the hell he is. You have problems.

It is never easy to tell someone what they don't want to hear.

I figli] Ci divorano vivi e noi li benediciamo.

Le bonheur conjugal ne ressemble pas plus au bonheur tout court que l'amour conjugal ne ressemble à l'amour. (...) Il est négatif, (...) fait d'une somme de malheurs victorieusement déjoués.