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• The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature. (Referenced in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young)

  Saul Bellow

  People, Toby, May

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• Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges. It should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Learning, Unique, Important

  John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.53, New Society Publishers

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• Dear young people, we have seen that it is the Holy Spirit who brings about the wonderful communion of believers in Jesus Christ. True to his nature as giver and gift alike, he is even now working through you. Let unifying love be your measure; abiding love your challenge; self-giving love your mission!

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Life, Jesus, Love You

  "Vigil With the Young People". Address in Sydney, Australia, w2.vatican.va. July 19, 2008.

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• This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Children, Parenting, Faces

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• Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Travel, Women

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

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• It may seem sometimes as if a culture of peace does not stand a chance against the culture of war, the culture of violence and the cultures of impunity and intolerance. Peace may indeed be a complex challenge, dependent on action in many fields and even a bit of luck from time to time. It may be a painfully slow process, and fragile and imperfect when it is achieved. But peace is in our hands. We can do it.

  Kofi Annan

  Time, Peace, War

  "Secretary-General Stresses Need for Culture of Peace". Kofi Annan's message for the occasion of the International Day of Peace (September 14), www.un.org. September 10, 1999.

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• ...We have an historic opportunity for a great global healing and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent activism with faith, courage, and determination, we can bring this great vision of a world united in peace and harmony from a distant ideal into glowing reality.

  Coretta Scott King

  Peace, Determination, Healing

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• God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Keeping Secrets, Boredom

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1966). “Conversations and encounters”

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• Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.

  Liberace

  Motivational, Strength, Meaningful

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• Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.

  William Russell

  Work, Responsibility, Men

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• One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

  Merle Shain

  Cancer, Adversity, Learning

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

  e. e. cummings

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Loving Life

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• You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Confidence, Football

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• Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Loving Life, Hard Times

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• Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

  Plutarch

  Courage, Enemy, Valor

  Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.183

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• The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.

  John F. Kennedy

  Greatness, Faces, Common

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• Within each of us is a hidden store of energy. Energy we can release to compete in the marathon of life. Within each of us is a hidden store of courage. Courage to give us the strength to face any challenge. Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost

  Roger Dawson

  Inspirational, Courage, Determination

  Roger Dawson (1994). “The 13 secrets of power performance”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• It was very difficult.
  We don't advertise this much, but those years that we went through were hell.
  I don't want to overstate the situation, but everything was mortgaged to the hilt, cash was a real problem, and it did limit what we were able to do.

  Gina Rinehart

  Inspirational, Business, Real

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• It's important to know that at the end of the day it's not the medals you remember. What you remember is the process -- what you learn about yourself by challenging yourself, the experiences you share with other people, the honesty the training demands -- those are things nobody can take away from you whether you finish twelfth or you're an Olympic Champion.

  Silken Laumann

  Softball, Sports, Running

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• I, Horus, son of Osiris, claim the throne of the heavens as my birthright!" he shouted."What was once mine shall be mine again.Is there anyone who would challenge me?" The gods flickered and glowed. A few scowled. One muttered something that sounded like "Cheese", although that could've been my imagination.

  Rick Riordan

  Son, Osiris, Imagination

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• Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Motivational, Peace, Wall

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• Whoa," said Nico as he climbed off the bus. "Is that a climbing wall?" "Yeah," I (Percy) said. "Why is there lava pouring down it?" "Little extra challenge..." - Percy

  Rick Riordan

  Wall, Climbing, Pouring

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• Every burden is a blessing.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Blessed, Adversity, Blessing

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• If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

  Richard DeVos

  Perseverance, Determination, Adversity

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