Quotes About Challenges

What can be done when you're eleven can often never be done again.

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.

Tough old world, baby. If you're not bolted together tightly, you're gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty.

Life is a crap carnival with shit prizes.

You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it.

You never know where the trapdoors are in your life, do you?

In a book, all would have gone according to plan... but life was so fucking untidy — what could you say for an existence where some of the most crucial conversations of your life took place when you needed to take a shit, or something? An existence where there weren't even any chapters?

It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.

It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.

She thought that things could not get worse . . . but they always can, and often do.

It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.

There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.

And sometimes before I went to sleep I'd think: This is how, this is how you pay off bein' a bitch. And it ain't no use sayin' if you haven't been a bitch you wouldn't have had to pay. Because sometimes the world makes you be a bitch.When it's all doom and dark outside and only you inside to first make a light and then tend it, you have to be a bitch.

As far as I'm concerned, high school sucked when I went, and probably sucks now. I tend to regard people who remember it as the best four years of their lives with caution and a degree of pity.

I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much.

Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes.

It wasn't fair, but what is? Life is a crap carnival with shit prizes.

Hemingway and Fitzgerald didn't drink because they were creative, alienated, or morally weak. They drank because it's what alkies are wired up to do. Creative people probably do run a greater risk of alcoholism and addiction than those in some other jobs, but so what? We all look pretty much the same when we're puking in the gutter.

When you're still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

Whoever said misery loves company was full of shite. Whatever can go wrong will go wrong , however... that guy was onto something.

When one has little faith, one must survive from day to day signs-

Has it ever occurred to you, he said abruptly, that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming? I shook my head. Tell you what I think, he said, I think that part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

That was the hurtful part of motherhood, not being able to fix what you couldn't understand.