The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.--Helen Keller 

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.--Hannah Arendt (Rachel Varnhagen)

I've learned that you'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.--Kirstie Alley 

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.--Bette Davis 

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.--Bernice Johnson Reagon 

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.--Helen Keller 

Not every challenge has to be dealt with on Monday. That's what Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are for!-Lawrence Spindel 

Of all the virtues we can learn, no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.--Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.--Joseph Campbell 

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.--Marcel Proust (Remembrance of Things Past) 

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.--Anne-Sophie Swetchine 

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.--William Frederick Halsy, Jr. 

There's always room for improvement, you know--it's the biggest room in the house.--Louise Heath Leber 

Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people.-- Bill Clinton (Inauguration speech, 20 Jan 1993) 

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.--Gail Sheehy 

Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.--St. Basil 

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.--Martin Luther King, Jr.

A person is the product of his thoughts. I want to be happy and hopeful. Therefore, I will have thoughts that are happy and hopeful. I refuse to be victimized by my circumstances.” —Max Lucado

“It's not the absence of storms that sets us apart. It's whom we discover in the storm: an unstirred Christ.” —Max Lucado

“One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.” —Max Lucado

“God meets daily needs daily. Not weekly or annually. He will give you what you need when it is needed.” —Max Lucado

“Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit.” —Max Lucado

“Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no, it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks.” —Max Lucado

"Nothing lifts the weary soul like the promises of God." —Max Lucado

“When Jesus died on the cross, so did your sin; when He rose from the dead, so did your HOPE.” —Max Lucado

“The life of Jesus Christ is a message of hope, a message of mercy, a message
of life in a dark world.” —Max Lucado

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.” —Max Lucado

“God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.” —Max Lucado

I f you've been trembling on a tightrope of fear and worry, may I suggest the best solution ever? A trade. An exchange: your cares for God's calm.” —Max Lucado

Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will.” —Max Lucado

You can do something no one else can do in a fashion no one else can do it. Exploring and extracting your uniqueness excites you, honors God, and expands his kingdom.” —Max Lucado

His goal is not to get you what you want; it is to get you what you need." Max Lucado,'

If we trust God more, we can fear less."Max Lucado.

What you think of Jesus Christ will thoroughly color how you think about everything else."Max Lucado