"I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself."

Challenge, Ambition, Obstacle, Self, Strength

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"I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself."

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"The height of your storm determines the height of your rainbow."

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"It is in vain to try and kick the wind."

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"Every problem is a new puzzle to be solved."

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"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."

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"Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she'd snuck in.And eaten their dinners."

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"Knowing the path through the forest doesn't make the trip any less daunting. Knowing the steps to your dreams doesn't make the climb any less of a challenge."

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"It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men's dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for."

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"Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope."

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"Whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same."

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"Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with."

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"The height of your storm determines the height of your rainbow."

"It is in vain to try and kick the wind."

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"I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, "This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles."

"You cannot reach space without overcoming the attraction of gravity."

"Every problem is a new puzzle to be solved."

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"Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she'd snuck in.And eaten their dinners."

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