#challenge

I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#hope #life #motivation #life

To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#indifference #life #perseverance #life

I think that dying is the easy part of life; for in waking each day and living in every moment, therein lies the challenge ↗

— Jeremy Aldana

#dying #life #moments #life

Contrary to what we usually believe, moments like these, the best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times—although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them. The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last blockon a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage. For each person there are thousands of opportunities, challenges to expand ourselves. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#flow #happiness #experience

There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there. ↗

— Bill McKibben

#environment #judgement #nature

Sir, no insult intended, but you said to me once that you don’t like kiss-asses and that you’d rather work with people challenging your perceptions. ↗

— Mario Stinger

#insults #nature

A Bush Administration will, I believe, enjoy a better relationship with the new Congress, although President-elect Bush will be faced with real challenges in getting along with the Congress. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#along #although #believe #better #bush

The Masters is going to be an awesome challenge. ↗

— Nigel Mansell

#challenge #going #masters

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#baby #black #born #challenge #child

You have to pack as much as you can in an hour or 70 minutes. This time around it was 15 songs, so it was a challenge to get them all the right length so you could get them all on. ↗

— John Mayall

#challenge #could #get #hour #length