Quotes About Challenges

I am now in another hole, though I have to say, it is no better than the old one. Living with human beings is hard!

Nella vita c'era la giustizia come per la campagna le cattive annate

Você só sabe exatamente até onde pode ir quando já foi.

Nobody gets to pick what life gives them

He'd seen firsthand how raw parenting made you. Might as well strip your clothes off and run down High Street in a hail of gunfire. That was being a parent.

Two formidable difficulties at once presented themselves: half the correspondence—the letters Dickinson received—had been destroyed and her own letters are undated after 1855.

Life is not a straight and endless stairway, the steps of which we tick off as we go smugly on, but a forest of wandering paths

Let's face it. Our ass is in a crack. We're gonna have to let this nigger bill pass. [Said to Senator John Stennis (D-MS) during debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1957]

Ye ha'e to laugh at life's trials. It makes them lighter to carry.

What I've found is that the ones who had it rough when younger tend to bounce back better when life kicks them in the teeth as an adult, which you know happens to everyone.

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

Life is difficult.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

Benjamin Franklin said, "Those things that hurt, instruct.

Everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life's problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.

In any case, when we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us. It is for this reason that in chronic mental illness we stop growing, we become stuck. And without healing, the human spirit begins to shrivel.

Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy.

it must be said that parental decisions are difficult, and that children often do "grow out of it." But it almost never hurts to try to help them grow out of it or to look more closely at the problem. And while children often "grow out of it," often they do not; and as with so many problems, the longer children's problems are ignored, the larger they become and the more painful and difficult to solve.

A full life will be full of pain. But the only alternative is not to live fully or not to live at all.

In any case, when we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

By this I mean let us teach ourselves and our children the necessity for suffering and the value thereof, the need to face problems directly and to experience the pain involved. I

What they once perceived as problems they now perceive as opportunities.

And since life poses an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy.