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Quotes About Challenges

Shrinks will tell you there are only five problems: sex, money, intimacy, trust, children. No, six: add parents, as in in-laws, Alzheimer's, inheritance. And of course they are all related
~ Elizabeth Benedict
For all it's problems and difficulties, life is mostly a wonderful experience, and it is up to each person to make the most of each day. I hope you are successful in your life, but look to the heavens and the earth and especially to other people to find your real wealth. Wherever I am, wherever you go, know that my love goes with you.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Nothing will brings lovers closer together than people trying to keep them apart.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Life comes with problems, you have to accept that. And you have to try to lead the simple life; to not constantly ask questions about the whys and the wherefores of everything.
~ Elizabeth Berg
little disappointments seem like paper cuts; they can bother you more than the big things do.
~ Elizabeth Berg
You know who does it right? You know who does loving right?" "Who?" "Nobody. I mean, people can't even Ã¢â'¬Â¦ If you get a cat because you just loooove cats, you're going to have plenty of days when you hate it because it's acting like a cat. Do you know what I'm saying?
~ Elizabeth Berg
I learned that the frustration and anger that comes up in these situations go both ways: you're frustrated and/or angry with your parents and they're frustrated and/or angry with you.
~ Elizabeth Berg
You know I love you, but you are one of the most exasperating people I have ever met.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Life was curiously exhausting but also exhilarating.
~ Elizabeth Berg
For ten years before I began writing for a living, I worked as a registered nurse. Never mind that the work was hard—more than once, I literally had not time for even a bathroom break. (My husband never believed me about this, but it was true.) Never mind that I had to work on holidays and every other weekend and on people's birthdays, my own included; I loved the job.
~ Elizabeth Berg
whether it was fortunate or unfortunate for Claire that neither of her parents had left be-hind any relatives suitable for raising her—all had either been too dilapidated, too debilitated, too disinterested, or too dysfunctional.
~ Elizabeth Bevarly
She'd read enough issues of Parents and Parenting magazines in recent weeks to understand that no matter when or how one became a parent, one had no idea what one was getting oneself into until it was too late. She'd learned, too, that no matter how chaotic and challenging the child, parents grew to love them unconditionally.
~ Elizabeth Bevarly
A 'few chits'? Good God, man, I've never faced such odds," the captain admitted. "The French have the decency to shoot at you." Lord
~ Elizabeth Boyle
With the help of the Lord, you can handle life's challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What comfort your fainting heart has, knowing that in those stumbling times of discouragement and despair, of depletion and seeming defeat, the Shepherd will find you...restore and fix you...and follow you...until you are well on your way.
~ Elizabeth George
Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances—it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.
~ Elizabeth George
Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life's problems when you count them as joy.
~ Elizabeth George
Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity to illustrate your faith in God.
~ Elizabeth George
Amid the joy of raising children will be some of the hardest work you'll ever do.
~ Elizabeth George
As you abide in Christ, you will have strength for today's trials as well as for all tomorrow's challenges.
~ Elizabeth George
In the world you will have tribulation.
~ Elizabeth George
Life is what happens to you while you're failing to plan it.
~ Elizabeth George
Trials are not meant to defeat you. They are meant to be defeated.
~ Elizabeth George
Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?
~ Elizabeth Gilbert