Quotes About Challenges

It's not clinical. The doctor says it's situational depression. It's just that I keep on having new…Situations.

Standing asymmetrically from arthritis and osteoporosis.

Ha estado usted sometido a mucha presión últimamente? No entendía bien: ¿a qué tipo de presión se refería?, ¿atmosférica?, ¿gravitacional? —Sí —dije—. A mucha. Por todas partes hay presión de una clase u otra.

No creo que tu problema fuera el pánico escénico. O el miedo a casarte. Creo que tu problema era el miedo a la vida.

inventions of things which they had no idea how to handle (the atomic bomb, the Internet, the semicolon)

She'd been petrified of motherhood. The fear of a deeper depression. She couldn't look after herself, let alone anyone else.

Why didn't you?' 'Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live.

ese era uno de los problemas fundamentales que tienen los humanos con la comprensión numérica: simple y llanamente, su sistema nervioso no está capacitado.

Will my life be miraculously free from pain, despair, grief, heartbreak, hardship, loneliness, depression? No. But do I want to live? Yes. *Yes.* A thousand times, yes.

But I think it spotlights the best & more frequently the worst of humanity so that increases my anxiety.

It was a planet full of tests and meta-tests. I suppose they loved tests so much because they believed in free will.

She'd been petrified of motherhood. The fear of a deeper depression. She couldn't look after herself, let alone anyone else.

You're overthinking it. I have anxiety. I have no other type of thinking available.

You'll be fine." "I don't know if I can do this. I've gone blank." "You're overthinking it." "I have anxiety. I have no other type of thinking available.

I was a human being with human illnesses, which other humans have had—millions and millions of humans—and most of them had either overcome their illnesses or had somehow managed to live with them.

You lose your job, then more shit happens.

I think it is easy to imagine there are easier paths,' she said, realising something for the first time. 'But maybe there are no easy paths. There are just paths.

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, Tom. 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.

There are more possible ways to play a game of chess than the amount of atoms in the observable universe.

Because she had it written in her DNA that she had to fail.

Minds can't see what they can't handle.

inventions of things which they have no idea how to handle (the atomic bomb, the Internet, the semi-colon)

I stacked the days up like Jenga blocks, imagining I was making progress, and then—crash—along would come a five-hour panic attack or a day of total apocalyptic darkness, and those Jenga days would topple back down again.

LIFE IS HARD. It may be beautiful and wonderful but it is also hard. The way people seem to cope is by not thinking about it too much. But some people are not going to be able to do that.