During our lives we're faced with so many elements as well, we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a read more

During our lives we're faced with so many elements as well, we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and have a little hope. The Tour isn't just a bike race, it tests you mentally, physically, and even morally. -Lance Armstrong.

The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that read more

The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will. -Ingrid Bengis.

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, read more

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. -Isak Dinesen.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. -Richard Bach.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. -Richard Bach.

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've read more

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent. -Golda Meir.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. read more

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. -Tennessee Williams.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.