If opening your eyes, or getting out of bed, or holding a spoon, or combing your hair is the daunting Mount Everest you climb today, that is okay.
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Quotes tagged ‘Challenge’
Nobody will ever be a greater enemy to you than you. Get out of your own way and you will be amazed at what you can accomplish.
That is the ultimate project for me—figuring out how language can perform this same kind of trick that music does.
It’s the hard days — the days that challenge you to your very core — that determine who you are. You will be defined not just by what you achieve, but how you survive.
You have to train to accomplish something big. Pick a challenge, train for it and succeed.
Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.
If things seem under control, you're just not going fast enough.
Creativity thrives on constraints.
I think if you really want to level up and separate yourself from the noise that's out there, from everybody else saying, "Hey, look at me! Look at me!" You have to take on a personal project.
It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.
There are three choices in this life: be good, get good, or give up.
There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in piece…
When we are no longer able to change a situation–just think of an incurable disease such as inoperable cancer–we are challenged to change ourselves.
I try to challenge myself in a different way every day.
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time f…
I thought it would all fall into place. I’ve changed my mind. Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions.
Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.
I learned that it was in hard times that people usually changed the course of their life; in good times, they frequently only talked about change. Hard times forced them to overcome the doubts that normally gave them pause. It surprised me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.
Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.