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Quotes About Challenges

There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.
~ David Levithan
Some people are given relatively fair lives. But others-they carry the burden of the unfairness of the world.
~ David Levithan
The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.
~ David Levithan
She has been left to her own devices, and those are broken.
~ David Levithan
Easy things are worthless, Laurie says. and I realzie he's talking to both Sean and me. It's the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for.
~ David Levithan
Every fight for survival is really a fight to return to the inconsequential concerns of the mundane.
~ David Levithan
I wanted love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything.
~ David Levithan
We're going to get through this. Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together.
~ David Levithan
Infinite Darlene doesn't have it easy. Being both star quarterback and homecoming queen has its conflicts.
~ David Levithan
The whole point of love isn't to have fun times without hard times, to have someone who is fine with who you are and doesn't challenge you to be even better than that. The whole point of love isn't to be the other person's solution or answer or cure. The whole point of love is to help them find what they need, in any way you can. What we have - it's definitely not normal. But the whole point of love is to write your own version of normal, and that is exactly what we're going to do. -Rhiannon
~ David Levithan
Dash is the kind of guy who's always had to
~ David Levithan
all i wanted was one fucking break, one idiotic good thing, and that was clearly too much to ask for, too much to want.
~ David Levithan
But in the short term, siblings are at best a hassle and at worst a terror.
~ David Levithan
a little recognition of the escapes we made, of the finish line we crossed, only to find so many other finish lines waiting after it.
~ David Levithan
It's like my grandma used to say: Just when you think life's got you in a gutter, a tornado will come along and destroy your house. And then you rebuild? I ask. Well, she never mentioned that part, but I suppose it could happen.
~ David Levithan
You're still a pinless grenade over the world not being perfect. no, I am a pinless grenade over the world being cruel but every time I'm proven wrong, that pin goes in a little more.
~ David Levithan
i have no idea why anyone would want to become a teacher. i mean, you have to spend the day with a group of kids who either hate your guts or are kissing up to you to get a good grade.
~ David Levithan
In the long term, I can see how siblings could be helpful in life?someone to share family secrets with, someone of your own generation who knows if your memories are right or wrong, someone who sees you at eight and eighteen and forty-eight all at the once, and doesn't mind. I understand that. But in the short term, siblings are at best a hassle and at worst a terror.
~ David Levithan
it's all about falling/you land and get up so you can fall again/it's all about falling/i won't be afraid to hit that wall again
~ David Levithan
Mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'I don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the things we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another.
~ David Levithan
This is not good," I told the trees. Don't fight it. Acknowledge it. Talk to yourself. "Already covered," I said. "Unless you have something to add?" "No," I replied. "Do go on.
~ David Levithan
There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.
~ David Levithan
i have no idea why anyone would want to become a teacher. i mean, you have to spend the day with a group of kids who either hate your guts or are kissing up to you to get a good grade. that has to get to you after a while, being surrounded by people who will never like you for any real reason.
~ David Levithan
Nothing ever happens on this globe for good without some people having their fill of laughter at first.
~ David Levithan