Quotes About Challenges

I'll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.

Living with anxiety, turning up, and doing stuff with anxiety takes a strength most people will never know.

Beware of the gap. The gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it. And you end up falling through.

I'm having a pretty shit time too, if we're doing the Misery Olympics.

Life is so infinitely hard. It involves a thousand tasks all at once. And I am a thousand different people, all fleeing away from the centre.

Failure is a trick of the light.

Stigma is particularly cruel for depressives, because stigma affects thoughts and depression is a disease of thoughts.

Now, Nikolas was a happy boy. Well, actually, no. He would have told you he was happy, if you asked him, and he certainly tried to be happy, but sometimes being happy is quite tricky. I suppose what I am saying is that Nikloas was a boy who believed in happiness, the way he believed in elves and trolls and pixies, but he had never actually seen an elf or a troll or a pixie, and he hadn't really seen proper happiness either. At least, not for a very long time. He didn't have it easy.

Love is scary because it pulls you in with an intense force, a supermassive black hole which looks like nothing from the outside but from the inside challenges every reasonable thing you know. You lose yourself, like I lost myself, in the warmest of annihilations.

Yet people still don't think depression really that bad. If they did, they wouldn't say the things they say.

Why depression is hard to understand IT IS INVISIBLE. It is not "feeling a bit sad.

So the fact that this book exists is proof that depression lies. Depression makes you think things that are wrong.

A wave can kill you. Or you can ride it. It's sometimes more dangerous to shy away. You can't live your life in fear. You have to be prepared to get on your board and stand on your feet. If you are in the barrel of a wave you have to ignore the fear. You have to be in that moment. You have to carve on through. You get scared, and the next thing you know you are off your board and smashing your head on a rock. I'm never going to live in fear.

Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.

The doctor says it's situational depression. It's just that I keep on having new … situations.

Love is scary because it pulls you in with an intense force, a supermassive black hole which looks like nothing from the outside but from the inside challenges every reasonable thing you know. You lose yourself, like I lost myself, in the warmest of annihilations. It makes you do stupid things – things that defy all logic. The opting for anguish over calm, for mortality over eternity, and for Earth over home.

I began to wonder if it was a bad thing to dwell on problems. But then I remembered that it is precisely not talking about problems that is itself a problem. It's what causes people to break down in their office or classroom. It's what fills up addiction units and hospitals and raises suicide figures.

When looking at triggers for mental health problems, therapists often identify an intense change in someone's life as a major factor.

Mornings were hard on Earth. You woke up tireder than when you went to sleep. Your back ached. Your neck ached. Your chest felt tight with anxiety that came from being mortal. And then, on top of all that, you had to do so much before the day even started.

Life wasn't ever one ingredient. It was several. And some flavors were bad and some were good, but love was the strongest of all. If you were loved, you had everything.

Sad things happen in life. They just do. But so do happy things.

Maybe she was just really crap at it. At life.

I would later discover this was one of the key problems humans had with numerical understanding—their nervous systems simply weren't up to it.

Magic was useless by itself. Making impossibilities possibilities was harder than it looked.