Quotes About Challenges

Only trouble sticks to me with any regularity…but I'm learning to think that can shape a person, too.

You know, they don't hand out manuals for the tough stuff," he said as the band slowed. "I haven't always known what to do as a father, but somehow you've turned out all right." Before

Swahili phrase he'd challenged me with years before, "A new thing is good, though it be a sore place.

He shook his head. "I see you trying to be tough skinned, but that makes sense. As a woman you'll have to work twice as hard for everything. I'm not sure I could do it." He lit a cigarette and drew on it, the end flaring red in the dark. When he released the held smoke, he looked at me. "I think you're rather brave, actually." Was

At Equator Ranch a decade before, his debut lambing had turned out only six surviving animals of four thousand ewes. Undaunted, he had burned through more of his inheritance (eighty thousand pounds, some claimed), replaced his stock, learned his hard lessons, and was now the most successful large-scale rancher in all of Kenya. Not

it's not what happens to us that matters most, but how we can learn to carry it.

Life is full of messes. Your mistakes aren't bigger than anyone else's.

When she left him, she swore she would "never try it again," meaning marriage. But I don't think she knew how to be fully herself when she was with a man or could feel anything but baffled by the competing demands of career and domesticity. Her struggles are poignant and real to me, and all too familiar

There wasn't anything simple about them, and I preferred that, and trusted it. My life wasn't simple either.

Long ago Corolla told me that it's not what happens to us that matters most, but how we can learn to carry it.

We were newlyweds, after all—but when evening came things fell apart. We'd been married for several weeks now, and I could count on one hand the number of times we'd actually had sex.

Teachers are discouraged because it is impossible for them to meet the demands being placed on them. They are asked to spend their days in the exhausting position of having to control and dominate children. They must herd, push, and pull them as one body through a set curriculum. Only those who have had to attempt this inhuman and unnatural endeavor could possibly appreciate the strain it places on the teacher who singlehandedly must accomplish it.

Life is like the stock market. Some days you're up. Some days you're down. And some days you feel like something the bull left behind.

You never knew. Cultures were mine fields.

Life is full of surprises, good and bad!

We thought the hard part was over—but we were wrong. Living is the hardest part. Figuring out how to live your life when you're all busted up inside and out—there is nothing harder.

God on high, hear my prayer. Don't give me an easier life. [...] Make me a stronger man.

There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

You discover that your old I, along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

Few take up the burden of their own victory: most give up their dreams when they become impossible.

No matter how many things women suffer, nothing can take away their appetite for trouble.

I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive.