
The Truth About Challenges
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a different way to stand.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a different way to stand.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. – Robert F. Kennedy

The trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. – Erica Jong

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. – Desmond Tutu

The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.~ Unknown

The difference between winning and losing is most often… not quitting! ~ Walt Disney

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. – Oprah Winfrey


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