Challenges Quote by Ralph Ellison

“Our perceptions determine, to an incredibly large degree, what we are and are not capable of. In many ways, they determine reality itself. When…

— Ryan Holiday

In life we want to challenge ourselves.

— Charlize Theron

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

— Iris Murdoch

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge…

— Michael Crichton

Whenever there is a challenge, there is also an opportunity to face it, to demonstrate and develop our will and determination.

— Dalai Lama

“We are all caught in natural and social frameworks, subject to an overwhelming abundance of challenges and enticements that prevent us from questioning reality.”

— Stefan Emunds

For humans, the challenge is to unite soul and role, to discover the hidden wholeness that enables us to be in the world who…

— Andrew Himes

Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.

— Matthew Shultz

“We must use all opportunities to practice the truth, to improve ourselves, instead of waiting for a time when we think we will be…

— Dalai Lama XIV

Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the fullness of…

— Thomas Merton

“At the most fundamental level, the level that is the most useful for doing insight practices, we wish desperately that there was some separate,…

— Daniel M. Ingram

[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view,…

— John Herschel