Quotes About Challenges

But teaching VBS may actually be a more painful way to my grave.

Her father's words suddenly came to her, Considering people who are undergoing situations much worse than yours doesn't make yours any easier, but it can help to change your perspective.

Welcome to the real world Kerri. Shit happens. You don't get to stop it by being a nun or telling the truth or turning counter clockwise three times while facing the sun and clucking like a chicken. It's a crapshoot and sometimes you lose.

Love is supposed to be scary. If it was easy, everyone would do it.

Life wasn't meant to be easy. It was meant to be lived.

The devices meant to simplify our lives merely create new and improved complexities.

They loved their children, but parenting was all-consuming sometimes, to the point where you felt yourself barely hanging on to the you that didn't lose it just because your child spilled milk.

Have you lost your mind? Yep. And now I'm trying to get it back

But I've long believed that marriage isn't just for our joy, but to make us stronger, better people. To change us into the people God wants us to be. And we do that through better . . . and worse.

I'm having a rotten day. First I lock myself out of the house, then I rip my skirt climbing through the window, then Macy's computer eats my layaway. And now, old Noah here won't start.

we play the cards we've been dealt—as Isabel in Secrets of a Charmed Life says—based on finite knowledge, and while being largely unaware that everyone around us is playing their own cards.

Life is wonderful and beautiful but oh, how hard it can be.

Event succeeds event; accidents, people, happenings, one after another come toward us. Each must be met and dealt with. . . . For this process of adjustment is life, and the mastery of it is the art of living. . . . —KARL DE SCHWEINITZ, The Art of Helping People out of Trouble, 1924

I believe I have you to thank for reminding me that pictures on an urn, though lovely, are not real. Life is real, in all its complexity. And though it can be painfully difficult, it can also be unspeakably wonderful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson that "Life is a journey, not a destination.

My weaker sex is still believed by most to be highly susceptible to fits and hysteria. I, being a woman, had better odds of becoming a future mental patient than of becoming a psychiatrist.

librarians are in the library all day, and their jobs include handling difficult and sometimes violent people nearly every day. The topic is bigger than libraries; it is a topic for society to solve.

The public can come and go, but librarians are in the library all day, and their jobs include handling difficult and sometimes violent people nearly every day. The topic is bigger than libraries; it is a topic for society to solve. All libraries can do is try their best to manage it.

Being an orchid hunter has always meant pursuing beautiful things in terrible places.

Some aspects of life are strange or even terrible, but later something okay or even good happens that would never have happened without the bad/strange thing. -- "The Higher Power of Lucky

Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

Burnout…occurs because we're trying to solve the same problem over and over.

The worst [about women's football] is never said officially. It is whispered. You hear it as a joke. Women should not play football at all, it is too masculine for their bodies is number one on the list. I usually chop back with that if it is masculinity you want, then go play American football. Leave [soccer] football to the women.

Not only should the conventional "rules" of marriage not apply necessarily to individual wives, but the euphoria of Phase One is old news. We being to learn that while nothing is as good as it seems, nothing is quite as dire as it appears.