Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it’s those hours that make us what we are. We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trails, or fracture by a permanent, damning fault line.
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Quotes tagged ‘Challenges’
We can’t all be happy, we can’t all be rich, we can’t all be lucky – and it would be so much less fun if we were. There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.
You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Life has many ways of testing a person’s will - either by having nothing happen at all, or by having everything happen at once.
Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and it’s spectacular.
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
The best people all have some kind of scar.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
— Rumi, amazon.com
My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.
Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.
Feel it, understand it, overcome it.
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
To change, a person must face the dragon of his appetites with another dragon, the life-energy of the soul.
— Rumi, amazon.com
You have to die a few times before you can really live.
There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.
An over-thinker can sometimes drive you crazy, but they will stay loyal to you for eternity.
The hardest conversations we'll ever have are the ones we actually need to liberate us from the challenges we face.
Our experiences always teach us something. If the experience is 'bad,' then the lesson is even more powerful and meaningful. Every unfortunate incident makes us stronger and better equipped to handle new challenges.