Quotes about Challenges

You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.

Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.

It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.

You can be defeated by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them.

Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine.

His prescription to experience a deep sense of meaning, then, was remarkably pragmatic. He had three recommendations: 1. Have a project to work on, some reason to get out of bed in the morning and preferably something that serves other people. 2. Have a redemptive perspective on life's challenges. That is, when something difficult happens, recognize the ways that difficulty also serves you. 3. Share your life with a person or people who love you unconditionally.

If you are born in America with a black skin, you're in prison

Living with people at close range over many years, as both monastics and small-town people do, is much more difficult than wearing a hair shirt. More difficult, too, I would add, than holding to the pleasant but unrealistic ideal of human perfectibility that seems to permeate much New Age thinking.

"Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. "

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

Love wasn't all that touched their lives on this planet, but it made everything else endurable.

A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom. O LORD, how my foes have increased! How many rise up against me!