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• How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Achievement, Growing, Aging

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• A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a life of decency, integrity, and kindness, which is much more challenging and noble, if not always quite as exciting.

  Daniel Handler

  Kindness, Giving Up, Integrity

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• One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Change, Sleep

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• The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

  Abigail Adams

  Mind, Habit, Born

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• She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Wall, Doorways, Stones

  "The Queen of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2000.

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• I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ.

  Ann Coulter

  Christian, Jesus, Mean

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.77, Crown Forum

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• Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.

  Albert Ellis

  Giving, World, Injustice

  Albert Ellis, Debbie Joffe-Ellis (2010). “All Out!: An Autobiography”

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• Some mothers in today's world feel "cumbered" by home duties and are thus attracted by other more "romantic" challenges. Such women could make the same error of perspective that Martha made. The woman, for instance, who deserts the cradle in order to help defend civilization against the barbarians may well later meet, among the barbarians, her own neglected child.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Mother, Children, Home

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• Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. The reason for some of these trials cannot be readily understood except on the basis of faith and hope because there is often a larger purpose which we do not always understand. Peace comes through hope.

  James E. Faust

  Uplifting, Purpose, Trials

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• Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls into question the structure of patriarchy itself.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Males, Female, Dominance

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• So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Struggle, Mean, Adventure

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• Well then,' said Femworth as he came to his feet, 'let's go. Sounds like a delightful challenge before supper. Stimulate the appetite, or kill it. Interesting either way.

  Donita K. Paul

  Feet, Interesting, Sound

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• For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length--and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Heart, May, Path

  Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.137, Univ of California Press

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• Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as they very definition of passion implies the impulse to freedom, it has a might intimidiating power. It contains a challenge. It contains an unspeakable hope.

  James A. Baldwin

  Passion, Friendly, Arrogant

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• A wager?" I repeated. "Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ... "Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling, an odd sort of smile, hard to define. "A kiss." My first reaction was outrage, but then I remembered that I was on my way to Court, and that had to be the kind of thing they did at Court. And if I win I don't have to collect. I hesitated only a moment longer, lured by the thought of open sky, and speed, and winning. "Done," I said.

  Sherwood Smith

  Kissing, Winning, Sky

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• Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the less fortunate--while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Kindness, Order, Justice

  "Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.

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• There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man with a burning challenge.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Believe, Destiny, Men

  "Open Letter to Joseph Stiglitz, Time to Start 'Re-writing the Rules,' Instead of 'Playing the Old Game!' - Part 2" by Quenby Wilcox, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2016.

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• To face a man in combat is challenge enough. To find the goddess in a woman is the life work of a man. Hard though the first may be, the second is the harder longer road. But every man seeks the woman of the dream, and only the best of men finds what he seeks.

  Rosalind Miles

  Dream, Men, May

  Rosalind Miles (2007). “Isolde, Queen of the Western Isle: The First of the Tristan and Isolde Novels”, p.48, Broadway Books

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• We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.

  James Redfield

  Optimistic, Events, Negative

  James Redfield (1993). “The celestine prophecy: an adventure”, Atticus Press & Company (AL)

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• Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Thinking, Compassion

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• I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realize what it means to be a child of God, to have within us something of the divine nature?

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Children, Mean, Divinity

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• To you who are parents, I say, show love to your children. You know you love them, but make certain they know it as well. They are so precious. Let them know. Call upon our Heavenly Father for help as you care for their needs each day and as you deal with the challenges which inevitably come with parenthood. You need more than your own wisdom in rearing them.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Children, Father, Parenting

  FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from Mar 27, 2015

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• Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Motivational, Confidence, Running

  FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from Jan 03, 2017

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• And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

  Douglas Coupland

  Life, Depression, Sadness

  Douglas Coupland (2010). “LIFE AFTER GOD”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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