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• The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thinking, Ideas, Want

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• This story is not and never was meant to challenge anyone's faith; however, if one's faith can be shaken by stories in a humorous novel, one may have a bit more praying to do.

  Christopher Moore

  Humorous, Stories, May

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• Our entire society is based on discontent. People wanting more and more and more. Being constantly dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their décor, their clothes, everything – taking it for granted that that’s the whole point of life. Never to be satisfied. If you are perfectly happy with what you got, especially if what you got isn’t even all the spectacular then you’re dangerous. You’re breaking all the rules. You’re undermining the sacred economy. You’re challenging every assumption that society is built on.

  Tana French

  Home, Clothes, People

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• How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is easy to enjoy the good and dislike the bad. Anybody can do that. The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together, not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety.

  Elif Safak

  Real, Love Is, Names

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• To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Sublime, Wonder, Mundane

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• The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters.

  David Levithan

  Kindness, Justice, Matter

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• As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because society and people are our meat, one really doesn’t belong in the midst of society. The great challenge in writing is always to find the universal in the local, the parochial. And to do that, one needs distance.

  William Trevor

  Distance, Writing, Thinking

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• An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Business, Creativity

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.81, Penguin

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• True character is revealedby the way people react to the bigger challenges in life.

  Alyson Noel

  Character, People, Way

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• Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

  Patricia Briggs

  Life, Knowing, Victory

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• Saba: "You want this one to guide you?" Leia: "If you would consider it." Saba: "This one?" Leia: "Yes. I want someone who will challenge me in unexpected ways. I want someone who will teach me what I don't know.

  Troy Denning

  Want, Way, Unexpected

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• We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

  Jodi Picoult

  Life, Now And Then, Mess

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• Down in the national news section, there's an article on a new pill, the 'Valium' they're calling it, 'to help women cope with everyday challenges.' God, I could use about ten of those little pills right now.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Everyday, Pills, News

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.245, Penguin

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• Then she waited, with parted lips and a saucy challenge in her eyes, to see how her presence -- the drama of being her -- was registering. In the way of such chicks, she seemed convinced of the originality of her provocation.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Drama, Eye, Way

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.194, Macmillan

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• Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.

  Clay Shirky

  Tools, Improvement, Modern

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.97, Penguin UK

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• The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.

  Jane Fonda

  Inspiring, Perfect, Whole

  "Jane Fonda: Life, Love and Working Out". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. October 27, 2010.

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• When you are confronted with challenges that are difficult to conquer or you have questions arise, the answers to which you do not know, hold fast to the things you do know. Hang on to your firmest foundation, however limited that may be, and from that position of strength face the unknown.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Foundation, Answers, May

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• He ought to buy her a new dress. She would never accept it, of course, but maybe if her current garments were accidentally burned... ...But how could he manage to burn her dress? She'd have to not be wearing it, and that posed a certain challenge in and of itself.

  Julia Quinn

  Dresses, Accepting, Garments

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• …a cheerful black shadow reared up behind him as he spoke, thundering a happy challenge to my Dark Passenger, which slid forward and bellowed back.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Dark, Black, Shadow

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.285, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Make the most of every moment. Get excited about every little thing. Why not? Why not have your wonderful moment of excited anticipation? Why not be happy NOW? This is my greatest challenge, but something I'm pouring my heart into: learning how to enjoy what I have, right here, right now. Every moment is precious and although sometimes I struggle to see it, I see it more and more every day.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Struggle, Heart, Why Not

  Bethenny Frankel (2011). “A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life”, p.317, Simon and Schuster

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• A life without problems or limitations or challenges--life without "opposition in all things," as Lehi phrased it (2 Nephi 2:11)--would paradoxically but in very fact be less rewarding and less ennobling than one which confronts--even frequently confronts--difficulty and disappointment and sorrow.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Disappointment, Sorrow, Facts

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• What makes life interesting are the challenges we face.

  Paulo Coelho

  Interesting, Faces, Challenges We Face

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• God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction over sin, or repentance over fallenness, or challenges that scare us, or visions of his holiness that overwhelm us. But God never brings discouragement.

  John Ortberg

  Children, Pain, Train Of Thought

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.201, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• And you still love Marc?" "More than I can even explain. He's my rock—strong and steady, and ready for anything. He knows what I need before I know it, and he pushes me to work harder, and look deeper, and be better. He challenges me, and infuriates me, and he lights me on fire, deep in my soul. And he has never, ever let me down. Sometimes it feels like he's the only thing keeping my heart beating. I love him so much that it feels like I'm dying a little bit every day that he won't smile at me. Or touch me.

  Rachel Vincent

  Strong, Heart, I Love Him

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Alpha”, p.60, MIRA

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• At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Waiting, Cry

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