Quotes About Challenges

Kiddo,' he said tiredly, 'you have to realize, a sizable number of the population gets its start in a back seat, that's just life.

I am not trapped in the wrong body; I am trapped in a world that makes very little space for bodies like mine.

If being a man is something that required a person to tick off a bunch of boxes, not many people would make it through.

Wherever the shadow of economic growth touches us, we are left useless unless employed on a job or engaged in consumption...We lose sight of our resources, lose control over the environmental conditions which make these resources applicable, lose taste for self-reliant coping with challenges from without and anxiety from within.

I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.

To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

It's the nature of mathematics to pose more problems than it can solve.

Toliko je u životu bilo stvari kojih smo se bojali. A nije trebalo. Trebalo je živeti

Biti ?ovek, ro?en bez svoga znanja i bez svoje volje, ba?en u okean postojanja. Morati plivati. Postojati. Nositi identitet. Izdržati atmosferski pritisak svega oko sebe, sve sudare, nepredvidljive i nepredvi?ene postupke, svoje i tu?e, koji ponaj?eš?e nisu po meri naših snaga. A povrh svega, treba još izdržati i svoju misao o svemu tome. Ukratko: biti ?ovek

To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged to swim, to exist; to have an identity; to resist the pressure and shocks from the outside and the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts - one's own and those of others - which so often exceed one's capacities? And what is more, to endure one's own thoughts about all this: in a word, to be human.

The Dearborn was typical of the schools in Boston's predominantly black neighborhoods, and the more Rachel saw of them, the more she despaired of her children's ever getting a decent education there. They were hardly schools at all, she thought, more like warehouses where the kids were stored for a few years, sorted, labeled, and packed for shipment to the menial, low-paying jobs at which they would be doomed to labor the rest of their lives.

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.

This the kind of world, if you don't die, you just keep on growing up and living through everything that comes.

Now, I ain't quite learned bout who makes all the big rules in life, but life sure can be mean and hard sometime.

Chile, ain't life somethin?! Lord, oh, lord.

Then she said, "Life sure give a body plenty to think about in this world." I said, "Life give your brain plenty to think bout in this world. It's Love what give your body plenty to think bout.

J. Carson Black

If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible.

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

J. Elizabeth Mills

The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters, will never stand amid the shocks of life.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.