Quotes About Challenges

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.

but there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power...

I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

The indignities of stupidity, and the disappointments of selfish passion, can excite little pity.

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere—and

Was sind Männer gegen Felsen und Berge?

Yes, I know exactly what you will say: Friday, went to the Lower Rooms; wore my sprigged muslin robe with blue trimmings - plain black shoes - appeared to much advantage; but was strangely harassed by a queer, half-witted man, who would make me dance with him, and distressed me by his nonsense

I hadn't showered for days, Jack hadn't stopped crying in as many, and I was wondering what the return policy was on an infant.

People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.

When we focus on the future, we do one of three things. We fantasize, which involves big dreams that are mostly for fun and entertainment; we dwell, which involves focusing on all the bad stuff that might happen—this was the official pastime of my hometown—or we hope, which involves envisioning the future while recognizing the inevitability of challenges.

deaths of despair escalating in terrifying ways as people struggled with the dislocation and isolation that the pandemic had caused.

Idealism expects everything to be fair or easy or good.

school shootings, gang warfare, domestic violence, and racism and sexism. How can you possibly be hopeful for the

There are over seven billion of us today

I'm nothing but envious that you've been happily married for two years. Try hauling your cookies on a new blind date every Friday, only to have your, already extremely low, expectations dashed as you meet men who look like Quasimodo and have Homer Simpson's IQ. 

Bad things always happen in three.

The reason most second marriages break up, I had read, was because of the children.

When we are tired, everything seems so very much worse.

Luck is not on her side today. It wasn't on her side this morning when she woke up to hear a door slamming downstairs and her husband bel- lowing her name, and it isn't on her side now.

Muškarci. Verovatno jedini segment mog života koji je potpuna katastrofa. Ne da ih ne sre?em. pobogu, ?ini mi se kao da mile odasvud, samo što su oni koji odlu?e da izmile meni u susret po pravilu obi?ni crvi. Tipi?no, zar ne?

I concluded that America was a fine place for the healthy and successful, but for the strugglers and the infirm, for the people who, through no fault of their own