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"Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is negativism to life. We are not there until we can say 'yea' to it all."
"Mythology tells us that where you stumble, there your treasure is ... The world is a match for us, and we’re a match for the world. And where it seems most challenging lies the greatest invitation to find deeper and greater power in ourselves."
"A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally."
"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 pieces. I must have time alone in which to mull over my encounter, and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it."
"Whenever there is a challenge, there is also an opportunity to face it, to demonstrate and develop our will and determination."
"And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American."
"We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges."
"Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose"
"The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties."
"Solving problems should be a joy, a welcome challenge to our creativity."
"Everything that you do is a challenge. And acting is just building up your concentration and being able to listen and to do the ridiculous."
"It can be a challenge, but my legacy, at least for the people who came before me, is you don't run from challenges because that's more comfortable and convenient."
"Something that's fun for me is a challenge. When you have a challenge and you take on that challenge and succeed, that's the best feeling."
"I'm still learning, but I can see there are decisions in life that are going to be very challenging and it's always better to get through them, always."
"I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply."
"I am in favor of [actions] that have authenticity, roots, originality, verve, balance, taste, communicativeness, challenge, relevance to their time-in short, things that make sense."
"Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph."
"Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if not for no other reason than that most of us find acknowledging the unknowable and monitoring its intrusions upon the familiar and mundane more than a little embarrassing."
"The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world."
"When everything goes without a hitch, where's the challenge, the opportunity to find out what you're made of?"
