“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.” -Corrie Ten Boom

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.” ― Seneca

“If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?” ― T.S. Eliot

“Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.” ― Paulo Coelho

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” ― Molière

“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.” ― Dalai Lama XIV

“Contrary to what we usually believe, moments like these, the best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times—although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them. The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage. For each person there are thousands of opportunities, challenges to expand ourselves.” ― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving! And then taking that experience to help others…” ― Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” – Unknown

“Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.” -Leo Buscaglia

“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” -H. Jackson Brown