Quotes About Challenges

Parenting and family life can be a perfect field for mindfulness practice, but it's not for the weak-hearted, the selfish or lazy, or the hopelessly romantic. Parenting is a mirror that forces you to look at yourself. If you can learn from what you observe, you just may have a chance to keep growing yourself.

You can't stop the waves but you can learn how to surf.

Life's greatest challenge are the manifestations of our dreams.

Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity to illustrate your faith in God.

Faith and perseverance is the key to overcoming obstacles.

Faith turns mountains into pebbles. Fear turns pebbles into mountains.

Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things - of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

What family doesn't have its ups and downs?

Total commitment to family and total commitment to career is possible, but fatiguing.

The economic crisis really affected my family - 2006 to 2011 were really bad times. Almost everybody in my family lost their jobs.

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

One has to handle these negative experiences alone.You can't get help from your friends or family.You're finally alone with it, and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.

Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do.

In the US a child born into a poor family will become a poor adult. The american dream is just that - it is not true, because of the level of extreme inequality.

If you can raise a family, then you can build a business.

I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.

People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.

Keeping your family together is an extraordinary feat - especially in the face of great conflict.