Quotes About Challenges

Life is a warfare against the malice of others.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

It will perhaps appear extraordinary that in speaking of marriage we have touched upon so many subjects; but marriage is not only the whole of human life, it is the whole of two human lives. Now just as the addition of a figure to the drawing of a lottery multiplies the chances a hundredfold, so one single life united to another life multiplies by a startling progression the risks of human life, which are in any case so manifold.

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

We have to labour in the fields as hard as men do, and then on top of that, struggle to bear and raise our children. As for the men, their work ends when they've finished in the fields. If you are born into this world, it is best you were born a man. Born as women, what good do we get? We only toil in the fields and in the home until our very vaginas shrivel.

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.

Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top.

Può darsi che in futuro stando con me conoscerai dolori, guai, problemi ma, se vuoi, costruiamo insieme una vita complicata, ma più felice di qualsiasi vita solitaria

Diventerò grande, accadranno tante cose e toccherò il fondo molte volte. Soffrirò molte volte e molte volte mi rimetterò in piedi. Non mi lascerò sconfiggere.

Cuando crezca más y más, me pasarán cosas diferentes. Muchas veces me hundiré hasta el fondo. Muchas veces sufriré, muchas veces reapareceré. No habrá derrota. No dejaré de luchar

When people start getting depressed there's just no end to it—things just seem to get worse and worse.

Our lives may be warped, but we live them all the same. One day to the next.

Growth and the overcoming of obstacles are inscribed on a person's soul.

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In qualunque famiglia ci sono problemi che visti dal di fuori sembrerebbero insuperabili. Eppure ogni giorno si mangia lo stesso, si fanno le pulizie, il tempo scorre senza troppi drammi, ci si abitua alle situazioni più assurde. In una famiglia c'è una promessa implicita, incomprensibile per gli altri, di restare uniti per quanto le cose possano farsi complicate

Ogni notte ha in serbo molte sorprese, e io cerco di non uscirne mai sconfitta, qualsiasi cosa accada [...]

After this you and I may end up seeing nothing but suffering, difficulty, and ugliness, but only if you'll agree to it, I want for us to go on to more difficult places, happier places, wherever it comes, together.

There are many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and feeding of something. It could be children, or it could be house plants, you know? By doing that you come to understand your own limitations. That's where it starts.

It was scary at first, being a young girl leaving high fashion, the only segment of the industry I knew, and walking into a more high profile, mainstream modeling world that had never been that accepting of an African American model before. But I knew the decision I made was worth the risk more than trying to stay in a world that was rejecting me because of what I naturally looked like. Regardless of the outcome, I knew it was right.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

My father always said the first ten years of marriage were like a shakedown cruise. You couldn't fix the problems until you figured out where they were hiding.

but I know that I have an easier time loving humankind than I do loving particular human beings.

Greenspan calls this "spiritual bypassing"—using religion to dodge the dark emotions instead of letting it lead us to embrace those dark angels as the best, most demanding spiritual teachers we may ever know.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.