#challenges

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

I was raised to face any challenge. ↗

— Louis Zamperini

#world-war-ii

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#being #challenges #deep #face #going

And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#commercial #creative #i #least #lot

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#believed #challenges #faith #i #lack

Everyone has their challenges. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#everyone #their

Our challenge is to join forces of the old and the new- experience and experiment, history and destiny, the world of man and the new world of science- but always in accordance with the never-changing word of God. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#new #old #change

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges. ↗

— Bob Barr

#argue #challenges #difficult #impossible #intelligence

America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats. ↗

— Christopher Bond

#america #challenges #faced #future #grown

Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation is now faced with a set of unprecedented challenges. ↗

— Jo Bonner

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