Quotes About Challenges

Sometimes they did well, but at other times their powerful human beliefs and emotions took over and clouded the way they looked at things. It made life in the Maze more complicated and challenging.

Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley.   But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us."   A.J. Cronin

You Change Your Valley Into A Peak When You Find And Use The Good That Is Hidden In The Bad Time.

Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us." A.J. Cronin

A veces, las cosas cambian y ya nunca más vuelven a ser como antes —dijo Haw—. Y esta parece ser una de esas ocasiones. ¡Así es la vida! Sigue adelante, y nosotros deberíamos hacer lo mismo.

It Is Natural For Everyone Everywhere To Have Peaks And Valleys At Work And In Life.

Haw remembered the times when he had felt his best in the Maze. It was when he was moving along.

Life is never completely without challenges.

If we won't be able to get rid of our "guests," we'll grow used to them and we'll live with them, and if their Creator changes the rules of the game we'll adapt to the new ones, even if for a while we'll kick against the pricks, raise a storm.

aun sin certeza, los problemas imposibles de resolver pueden, sin embargo, resolverse de manera aproximada

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent... if we come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death -- however mutable man may be able to make them -- our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

We worked hard, we were just making it—then they raised the interest rates, or closed the schools, or changed the laws....

Dice che l'uomo è stato creato padrone della terra, ma gli manca una cosa fondamentale: una borsa degli attrezzi. Ah, sospira, se ci fosse un cacciavite per togliere le idee sbagliate e un martello per fissare le buone intenzioni, una chiave inglese per stringere per sempre l'amore e una sega per tagliare col passato! Ma questa attrezzeria non ce l'hanno data e, dopo aver tentennato e scricchiolato, prima o poi ci romperemo.

The big problem is how hard it is to achieve equal relationships in a society whose work policies, school schedules, and social programs were constructed on the assumption that male breadwinner families would always be the norm. Tensions between men and women today stem less from different aspirations than from the difficulties they face translating their ideals into practice.

But working women with retired husbands tend to be more dissatisfied with their marriages than any other type of wife.39

It was a newsflash to me that dating as a pre-thirty divorcette was as bad as having herpes.

Trust. Partnership. An appreciation and acceptance of each other's strengths, and a willingness to allow for the other's weaknesses. A sharing freely given and readily accepted in all areas of our lives, allowing the other to share the burdens, to help meet the challenges, and share fully in the triumphs.

It was one thing for hope to spring eternal for the unlikely—it was quite another to wish for the utterly impossible.

The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.

the story of colonial-era America, rerun across an infinite frontier...All of which was fine, until the day you needed root-canal dentistry. Or your e-book reader broke down. Or you worried whether your kids were ever going to learn anything more than how to plough a field or trap a rabbit. Or you got sick of the mosquitoes. Or, damn it, you just wanted to go shopping .

It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that.

You're a freak, you know that? You've always been a freak. Everyone says so. They always have. I'm trying not to be.

I know that things get worse before they get better because that's what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big.

I wish I could report that it's getting better, but unfortunately it isn't. It's hard, too, because we've started school again, and I can't go to the places where I used to go. And it can't be like it was. And I wasn't ready to say good-bye just yet. To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.