Quotes About Challenges

It all counts,' Adam said again. 'And the bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more, you're all good.-pg 325 Along for the Ride

For most of us, once something was busted, it was game over. I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall apart and see options instead of endings.

I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I felt pulled in all directions, fighting to keep all these obligations circling in the air above me. It was only a matter of time before something fell.

Welcome to adulthood, she said. It sucks as much as high school.

Love is an excuse to put up with shit that you shouldn't

Obviously it won't all run smoothly. But it's important to awknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn fromt them.

My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest.

Life is big and huge and scary. But you have to go and take your part of it. There's a reason the saying is 'Seize the day,' not 'Wait for it to come along at some point.

What defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back.

Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.

Being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed especially when the rest of the world could be so mean

Life isn't fair, Owen told her. Get used to it.

Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential.

When you have a kid, you sign on for the whole package: good, bad, everything in between. you can't just dip in and out, picking and choosing the parts you want and quitting when it's not perfect.

Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting.

As if at the age of eighteen life already sucked beyond any hope of improvement.

Everything always gets crazy at the end. You just have to keep going, regardless of how awful it gets. So that's what I do.

Life has a way of disregarding even your best intentions.

But this, too, wasn't true. Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so dammed hard.

Life didn't begin cleanly, and it surely never ended that way. We were blessed with whatever we had in the middle. It made sense that it be messy, too.

It took a lot to have hope in this world where so little evidence of it existed. Maybe if nothing bad had ever happened, you didn't even consider those clouds and storms ahead. But for the rest of us, even the brightest sunshine carried a chance of rain.

Family,"_ _ _"They're the people in your life you don't get to pick. The ones that are given to you, as opposed to those you get to choose.

Aceptar todo lo bueno y lo malo de alguien. Es algo muy bueno a lo cual aspirar. La parte difícil es en verdad hacerlo.

There's no shame in trying to make stuff work, is how I see it. It's better than just accepting the broken." I wanted to say he was lucky he even had a choice. That for most of us, once something was busted, it was game over. I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall apart and see options instead of endings.