Discovering Personal Challenges Quotes & Sayings

I want to build / and raise anew / Theseus' Temple and the Stadiums / and where Pericles lived
But there's no money, too much spent today / I had a guest over and we sat together. — Friedrich Holderlin

Sorrow was like sleeping on stone,he (Brenden)decided. You had to settle all its bumps and sharp edges, come to terms against them,fit them around until they became bearable, and then carry your bed wherever you went. — Patricia A. McKillip

I stopped drinking when I was 23. I kind of started when I was 13, so it was a 10-year run. But I just became a bad, annoying drunk child, so when I stopped, I'd done a lot of things I wasn't proud of. — John Mulaney

We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring. — Daniel Johns

Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour. — Alexander MacLaren

I really don't know one plane from the other. To me they are just marginal costs with wings. — Alfred Kahn

Discovering and fulfilling your personal destiny is life's ultimate challenge and its greatest reward. — Paul O'Brien

He'd always found it odd that so many died when they were old, as logic said that was the point in their lives when they'd had the most practice not dying. He — Brandon Sanderson

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. — Seneca The Younger

I've been in the service industry. I've bar-tended. I've waited tables, and I've worked at pizza places; I've made pizza. I've had a lot of jobs, and many of them were in the food service industry. — Jon Favreau

To the casual observer it may have looked like I was living a life of indolence, compared to the noisy industry with which the city to the north was ripping itself to pieces. It was true that, after a brief but regrettable entanglement with Higher Learning, I had fairly much confined my activities to the house and its environs. The simple fact of it was that I was happy there, and as I didn't have any skills to speak of, or gifts to impart, I didn't see why I ought to burden the world with my presence. It was not true, however, to say that I did nothing. — Paul Murray

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball. — Pete Rose