Quotes About Challenges

Non c'è più tempo per fuggire e forza per resistere

It wasn't easy to develop a healthy personality when the canals of your flagellate chambers were held in common with an invaginated mother, incestuous sisters and a bisexual father. When the only anatomical features on which you could construct an identity were the gastral cavity and the aperture of your osculum. The tragedy of being a vegetable was that you couldn't commit suicide. The advantage of being a sponge was that you could drown your sorrows.

Transportation and education pay immense social and economic dividends in the long run, but are difficult to make profitable in the short run.

Oh, difficulties do not affright me, said D'Artagnan. I shrink before nothing but impossibilities.

Markets are actually set up so that most traders must lose money

She was not sure if she would want him to have known; we do not always wish for those for whom we long to know that we long for them, especially if the longing is impossible, or inappropriate. . . to be loved by the unlovable was not something that most people could cope with.

None of us knows how we will cope with snakes until the moment arises, and then most of us find out that we do not do it very well. Snakes were one of the tests which life sent for us, and there was no telling how we might respond until the moment arrived. Snakes and men. These were the things sent to try women, and the outcome was not always what we might want it to be.

It's because there are too many people who want to stop us having fun. That's the reason.

All of us had hard choices, she thought; the greatest of us and the least of us, and we had to feel our way through them and accept that there would sometimes be regrets.

There were times when life's problems were convincingly outweighed by its possibilities, and this, she felt, was one.

all the dilemmas and headaches that could make life a moral minefield.

she had not had the time to love her children, because all her energy was spent in simply keeping them alive.

YES, THOUGHT Mma Ramotswe, the world can be very discouraging. But we cannot sit and think about all the things that have gone wrong, or could go wrong. There was no point in doing that because it only made things worse. There was much for which we could be grateful, whatever the sorrows of this world. Besides, dwelling on the trials and tribulations of life was time-consuming, and ordinary duties still have to be performed; livings have to be earned

We cannot let wicked people spoil our lives for us, can we?

But being a parent hurt—that was part of the arrangement. It hurt and then suddenly it did not hurt any longer, and a loving and reasonable person emerged from the teenage shell, just as the colourful emperor moth emerges from the chrysalis of the mopane worm.

Small ones too, Mma Sometimes big problems are really tiny ones when you look at them in the right way.

And as far as fourteen-year-old boys were concerned, she had yet to meet one who was not, at least in some respects, embarrassing or difficult. That, simply, was what fourteen-year-old boys were like.

was particularly hard for women now, when there were so many children left without

The voices of the children were pure; their hearts were pure. Some of them had already discovered how hard life could be; others had yet to do so and probably did not fully understand what the world could be.

We all have people in our lives we don't really choose as friends but with whom we're, well, lumbered, I suppose. Heart-sink friends.

Everything could always be worse,' she would say, 'and so be grateful that things are only as bad as they are.' She

There are awkward moments from which one can retreat, and awkward moments from which there is no escape.

They are not much use to anybody, really. It is very sad." He smiled. "And then, suddenly, at seventeen—sometimes at age sixteen—they grow out of all of that and they become nice once more, just as they were before this terrible thing called adolescence happened to them.

From an evil dog be glad of a handful of hairs.