Quotes About Challenges

But... my choices haven't always been very good, I said. Whose have? he asked.

Planet Earth isn't a fair place. It's unfair in a broad variety of different ways, some worse than others, but it isn't fair. Not for anybody. And that's pretty much the fairest thing about it.

So there are things stacked against us," I said. "What else is new?

Family complicates everything. Dammit.

Planet Earth isn't a fair place. It's unfair in a broad variety of different ways, some worse than others, but it isn't fair. Not for anybody.

Bad things kept happening to me. It was high fucking time I started happening to them. Maeve

Sometimes I get tired of being the guy who is supposed to deal with un-deal-withable situations. I

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things," she said. "I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane. Or you become like Martin. Shut off from everything and everyone. Trying not to feel.

that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

The pain we feel in life always grows. When we're little, little pains hurt us. When we get bigger, we learn to handle more and more pain and carry on regardless. Old people are the hands-down champions of enduring pain.

Life is unfair, uncaring, and painful

She . . . is worried that her daughter is a very young person moving in a world that rewards inexperience with pain.

It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.

There was no sense in brooding over it. Life never stays the same. There's always some kind of curveball coming at you. Nothing to do but swing away.

Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.

Trials and half a dozen smaller

Now I had to contend not only with pornography-syndicate conspiracies, but also a succubus of the White Court. Or maybe more than one, which for grammatical reasons I hoped was not the case.

Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day.

There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.

I get more threats before nine a.m. than most people get all day

So really, it was just as well that Godmother had caught up to me, in spite of my best efforts to avoid her. I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex.

You have more choices. Which means that you have much improved odds of making mistakes. You're only human. Once in a while, you're going to screw the pooch.

We still hadn't learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

It's not the valleys in life I dread so much as the dips.