Quotes about Challenge

Tom, remember my last letter, when I talked about guilt? I haven't forgotten any of those thoughts; as a matter of fact, they are still churning in my head, and I don't know where they will eventually carry me. Since I last wrote, I did come up with one challenging proposition about guilt: that it could be a fact, and not just a feeling.

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

Each man is a little war.

I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

Hard tasks need hard ways.

I never thought it would be easy to serve God, she said. I just didn't think it would be this hard.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less.

Paul crawled through the sphincter

Paul took a place in the line behind Chani. He had put down the black feeling at being caught by the girl. In his mind now was the memory called up by his mother's barked reminder: "My son's been tested with the gom jabbar!" He found that his hand tingled with remembered pain.