Quotes About Challenges

I didn't fill it up with movies every time because I was trying to just film one damn movie, but that's the heartache of independent films.

Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer.

Oh, Ashley, nothing has turned out as we expected! It never does, he said. Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

smashed fly or the dead pig, gone stiff in the sun. It made his stomach feel funny even trying. "I don't think it's fair we've got to do Luke's chores now," Luke's other brother

It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.

It kind of seemed like, as long as he was alive, there was still hope that he could fix things.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Trouble borrowed will be paid back with interest compounded on sorrow.' Don't worry. We're with you.

Ordeals never turn out the way you expect them. Usually when the ones you are expecting finally arrive there is no question of decision at all, and the ordeals of decision turn up on quite other occasions.

Shackleton faced many of the same problems encountered by managers today: bringing a diverse group together to work toward a common goal; handling the constant naysayer; bucking up the perpetual worrier; keeping the disgruntled from poisoning the atmosphere; battling boredom and fatigue; bringing order and success to a chaotic environment; working with limited resources.

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them. ? Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

Il faut éviter de penser à ces difficultés que présente le monde. Sans ça, il deviendrait tout à fait irrespirable.

Men cannot stand a woman who writes. That's a cruel thing for men. It's hard for all of them.

Si es difícil vivir, es aún mucho más penoso explicar nuestra vida

Het landschap van mijn leven lijkt, net als bergachtige streken, te bestaan uit verschillende lukraak opeengestapelde materialen. (...) Hier en daar komen de granietblokken van het onvermijdelijke aan de oppervlakte; overal het gruis van het toeval. Ik span me in om mijn levensloop na te gaan teneinde er een plan in te vinden, er een lood- of een goudader in te volgen of de stroom van een ondergrondse rivier, maar dat volkomen kunstmatige plan is niets dan gezichtsbedrog van de herinnering.

Il mio insegnante (un uomo assai mediocre, ma pieno di buona volontà) consigliava mia madre di mandarmi all'estero a perfezionare la mia educazione musicale. Sapevo che vi avrei trovato difficile l'esistenza; ciononostante desideravo partire. Abbiamo tanti legami con luoghi dove abbiamo vissuto che ci sembra più facile, lasciandoli, lasciare noi stessi.

You only grow up by living through the shit that life throws at you

Adulthood, for all its opportunities, meant the simultaneous accumulation of loss.

But that's the point, Amy. It's easy to love someone when they're on their best behaviour — you can do that in your sleep. The real test is when they're — to use Neeve's expression — a pain in the hole. That's what love actually means.

I knew then that life was no respecter of circumstance. The force that flings disasters at us doesn't say Well, I won't give her that lump in her breast for another year. Best to let her recover from the death of her mother first. It just goes right on ahead and does whatever it feels like, whenever it feels like it.

It actually felt harder, not easier, to be with people. The toughest challenge was my face; maintaining a 'normal' expression was utterly exhausting.

It might be uncomfortable. But it's an opportunity. An opportunity for what? Personal growth. Internally, I sighed. Wretched personal growth. Always so unpleasant.

having to be nice to people, which, as everyone knows, is the toughest job in the world

Fights are part of life, far better to learn to live with them.