Quotes About Challenges

Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like.

Don't spend too much of your life avoiding the sharp edges of shattered dreams.

Love blooms all sorts of flowers, thorns, and nettles.

Menopause is just Puberty's evil older sister.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

There are lots of opport?nities o?t there. And yo? know what's missing.

The reason most people do not recognize an opportunity when they meet it is because it usually goes around wearing overalls and looking like Hard Work.

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well, this isn't too bad. I don't have my left arm anymore, but at least nobody will ever ask me whether I am right-handed or left-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaah! My arm! My arm!"

Wearing his eyes in his heart, the optimist falls over his own feet, and calls it Progress.

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

Today the accent is on youth but the stress is on the parents.

MENstrual cramps, MENtal breakdowns, MENopause — ever notice that many of women's problems begin with MEN?

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.

Spring is on the way; summer is on the way; storms are on the way; wars are on the way; sorrow and happiness are on the way; they are all on the way, they are coming! Everything is on the way! Life is a highway; while we are moving on the way, all else is coming towards us! Devil is on the way; angel is on the way! Stay firm on the way!

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it.

Parental Predictions. — Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11:30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver.

Theories are great, they sound great, but the minute you are asked to prove one in actual life, why the thing blows up.

Sometimes a relationship can hobble along for years with an injured leg of friendship or a broken wing of love.

Resolve is never stronger than in the morning after the night it was never weaker.

With all its ups and downs, skipping is just one more metaphor for life.

Jugend hat keine Tugend

I am often asked what keeps me going after all these years. I think it is the realization that there is no final struggle. Whether you win or lose, each struggle brings forth new contradictions, new and more challenging questions. As Alice Walker put it in one of my favorite poems: I must love the questions themselves as Rilke said like locked rooms full of treasures to which my blind and groping key does not yet fit.1

Na catinga ele às vezes cantava de galo, mas na rua encolhia-se.