Quotes About Challenges

To love was the greatest adventure life had to offer; but to love was to suffer.

I was thinking, 'I'm nineteen and I've got to go on living and living and living.

Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses: a race whose result we know beforehand but in which we fail to bet on the winner.

There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.

What sex are you?" Doesn't matter does it? After all that's your problem." If I keep you, what will happen?" You'll have a difficult, different time." Is it worth it?" That's up to you.

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

Examine this statement: 'A woman cannot be a poet.' Dr Samuel Johnson (Englishman 1709-84 Occupation: Language Fixer and Big Mouth.) What then shall I give up? My poetry or my womanhood?

I have had a lot to put up with, she said, looking meaningfully at me. I know the Bible tells us to turn the other cheek but there are only so many cheeks in a day.

It was very bad for me that my deafness happened at around the same time as I discovered my clitoris.

You can change everything about yourself - your name, your home, your skin color, your gender, even your parents, your private history - but you can't change the time you were born in, or what it is you will have to live through.

I reassured myself as best I could. The minister was a man, but he wore a skirt, so that made him special. There must be others, but were there enough? That was the worry. There were a lot of women, and most of them got married. If they couldn't marry each other, and I didn't think they could, because of having babies, some of them would inevitably have to marry beasts.

en la escuela siempre

I have ridden out all the storms," said Shakespeare, "even the ones I wrote myself. Here, look, it begins…

Toplum kad?nlar? topal b?rak?r ve onlar? sakat yaratm?? olan sanki Tanr?, DoÄŸa ya da genetik faktörlermiÅŸ gibi davran?r.

Personas de reconocida integridad colocadas en situaciones difíciles, maridos engañados> mujeres seducidas, partos clandestinos, he aquí los asuntos más comunes; y el que más enriquecía la Casa de Expósitos era siempre el más aplaudido.

las fatigas y el agotamiento espiritual, los pesares y contrariedades que se sienten en todas las situaciones, los cuales corroen perpetuamente el alma: he ahí las pruebas funestas de que la mayor parte de nuestros males son obra nuestra

La liberté n'étant pas un fruit de tous les climats n'est pas à la portée de tous les peuples.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.

God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.

Life there was hard and it made people hard.

What doesn't kill you will make you stronger

Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you are young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul.

People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul...