#challenge

But today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. The large house in which we live demands that we transform this world-wide neighborhood into a world – wide brotherhood. Together we must learn to live as brothers or together we will be forced to perish as fools. We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#moral-progress #rev-dr-martin-luther-king-jr #science #spiritual #technology

I feel that we are often taken out of our comfort zones, pushed and shoved out of our nests, because if not, we would never know what we could do with our wings, we would never see the horizon and the sun setting on it, we would never know that there's something far better beyond where we are at the moment. It can hurt, but then later you say "thank you." I have been pushed and shoved and have fallen out and away, so very, very, many, many times! And others around me have not! But then, the others haven't seen what I have seen or felt what I have felt or been who I have been, they can't become what I have become. I am me. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#beyond-your-comfort-zone #challenges #change #facing-change #flying

But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#change #inspirational #change

The ego lusts for satisfaction. It has a prideful ferocious appetite for its version of "truth". It is the most challenging aspect to conquer; the cause for most spiritual turmoil. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#challenge #conquer #decision #ego #greed

The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard. ↗

— Carol Gilligan

#felt #hardest #heard #i #me

Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#curiosity #life #life

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation. ↗

— Bernie S. Siegel

#illness #self-transformation #life

Challenge who you can be, don't let fate control your future. Fate can come to rule your life if you don't decide for yourselves exactly what you want. It fills in the bits like a mischievous mistress. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#control #decide #fate #future #life

The future of fiction? he said. Maybe, she said. Will it have room for, you know, love & stuff? he said. Always, she said. OK then, he said. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#patrick-ness #the-guardian #twitter-fiction #love

It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me. ↗

— James Lafferty

#challenge #character #definitely #different #interesting