"Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all."
— Helen Keller

"I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen."
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

"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 Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation)

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden, or Life in the Woods)

"According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all."
— Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild)

"Sometimes we bring to a struggle or cause the gifts we see most clearly, a courage, a strength, or a charm others have told us we have. But often we find more is asked of us than that, more than we intended or thought we possessed. We are asked to offer that which we thought dearest, to forgive what seemed unpardonable, to face what we feared the most and endure it. Sometimes we have to travel to the last step a path that was not of our own choosing. But I promise you this ... it will lead to a greater joy in the end. The difficulty is that the end is beyond our sight, it is a matter of faith, not of knowledge."
— Anne Perry (A Christmas Visitor)

"There are no negatives in life, only challenges to overcome that will make you stronger."
— Eric Bates

"Changes are inevitable and not always controllable. What can be controlled is how you manage, react to and work through the change process."
— Kelly A Morgan

"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable. "
— Thomas S. Monson (Pathways to Perfection: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson)

""I take on any challenge that's foolish enough to take on me"
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— Dwight Schrute The Office

"Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out."
— Jack Buck