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Quotes About Challenges

Sometimes even the shortest distance can be impossible to navigate, whether you went road or shore or some other route.
~ Sarah Dessen
I was beginning to understand, though, that there were no such tings as absolutes, not in life or in people. Like Owen said, it was day by day, if not moment by moment. All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough by to shoulder the rest.
~ Sarah Dessen
Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative...not even trying...life's short.
~ Sarah Dessen
But being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.
~ Sarah Dessen
Por qué me tocan siempre a mí las hazañas estúpidas? -Porque eres pelirrojo.
~ Sarah Dessen
Life is full of screwups," he said, chucking another paper at a split-level before taking the corner. "You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence.
~ Sarah Dessen
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.
~ Sarah Dessen
But being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.
~ Sarah Dessen
If only I'd been able to just tell him everything else, as well. But you can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can, under the circumstances.
~ Sarah Dessen
the truth is, nothing is guaranteed.
~ Sarah Dessen
How do ugly men make their way through life?
~ Sarah Dunant
Life is long. And it's getting longer for most of us. Most people in this country will have three or four marriages in their lifetime. Each one will challenge them and suit them in a different way. The lucky few, the ones who are willing to work at it, will have a handful of very different marriages, all with the same person. —
~ Sarah Dunn
Life is long. And it's getting longer for most of us. Most people in this country will have three or four marriages in their lifetime. Each one will challenge them and suit them in a different way. The lucky few, the ones who are willing to work at it, will have a handful of very different marriages, all with the same person. —Constance Waverly TED Talk
~ Sarah Dunn
Our model ships look perfect in their bottles, but we do not know if they are seaworthy. Sometimes the one that reaches your harbor has already been through the storm.
~ Sarah Kay
Impossible is trying to connect in this world; trying to hold on to others when things are blowing up around you; knowing that while you are speaking, they aren't just waiting for their turn to talk. They hear you.
~ Sarah Kay
You'll never know what your mother went through.
~ Sarah Manguso
Nory was preparing to take a Big Test. The Big Test, for the second time. The first time had been a disaster. Nory was in fifth grade.
~ Sarah Mlynowski
Life is complicated sometimes to be sure, but there are other times...when life is just as sweet, and good, and simple as it seems.
~ Sarah Weeks
In my experience nobody gets to lead a totally charmed existence. Nobody escapes the pitfalls of being a human being. It's what seperates us from the zebras. Or that's my theory anyway
~ Sarah-Kate Lynch
Life is tough, get a helmet.
~ Sasha Cohen
I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.
~ Saul Bellow
Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there's the devil to pay.
~ Saul Bellow
Life, said Samuel Butler, is like giving a concert on the violin while learning to play the instrument—that, friends, is real wisdom.
~ Saul Bellow
Vrei sa spui ca la "Viata" nu exista solutie? – Vreau sa spun ca la "Viata" exista mai multe solutii, prin urmare ea n-are solutie. – Dupa mine, Tanti Roz, singura solutie la viata este sa traiesti.
~ Schmitt Éric-Emmanuel