Quotes About Challenges

He said that we of the hidden had our burdens, but those who lived in the open carried far heavier burdens than ours, which was true.

Nothing I could say or do would help her. Life is hard in a world gone wrong.

To have your life blow up four times before you're thirty would take something out of anyone, and I think it drained from my mom just enough hope that she never quite built her confidence back to what it once had been.

Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.

It's only life. We all get through it. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in accidents or altercations, while others skate through years with nothing worse to worry about than an occasional bad-hair day.

In this beautiful but hard world, fate spared no species.

What matters is the day at hand and what we do with it, one day at a time, some butter-side-down days, some butter-side-up. And what should we do with the day?

And one thing experience has taught me is that life can hammer you hard just when everything seems to be so fine, but life can also drop the most amazing moments of grace on you just when you thought nothing good would ever happen again.

Life has taught her that it's mentally exhausting and spiritually depressing

Litigation is expensive. I could lose. I'm aware of that.

he's been booted from three expensive private schools.

Sometimes life seemed to be a machine designed to crush dreams as effectively as a junkyard hydraulic press crumpled cars into compact cubes.

And anyway, things have a way of happening that force you to be what you are.

Not as bad as a Sherpa

the best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft a-gley.

no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

In this crazy future tumbling like an avalanche straight at us, the ambitions of two people didn't amount to a hill of beans.

I was born under a glass heel, and have always lived there,'" Tim quoted.

In this brave new world, there is no place for a lone paladin venturing forth on tasks of knightly honor. Both Galahad and Shane would be toast. In times as complex as these, any caped crusader must work sans cape, but with backup that amounts to scores of specialists.

Yeah, life is complicated, but if it wasn't complicated, it would be a roller coaster on a flat track. Wouldn't be a ride worth taking. And, yeah, we never fully know ourselves, but that means we're mysterious enough to interest one another. And if we fully knew ourselves in this world, what reason would we have to still be here?

When Addie had signed up for this course she'd been determined to do whatever it took to get through with a passing grade. She hadn't expected to enjoy it or even learn from it. Yet the novel they were studying was filled with life lessons that seemed to apply directly to her.

Isn't that the way life goes? Just when everything seems perfect and nothing could possibly go wrong, then, boom, you're tossed onto your butt, wondering what in the name of heaven happened.

I suppose there will be the time when I'll need to consider moving into one of those assisted-living complexes. At my age it's difficult to make significant changes, but then that's life.

People from all over asked him what he'd found the hardest.