challenges

Some of the world's biggest challenges can be solved by some of the world's most marginalized communities themselves.

The moment you inject information, education, and an entrepreneurial spark in a community, it gets empowered enough to inspire, build, and uplift itself.

Without a degree of risk, there is little chance for the enormous mixture of relief and achievement that follows in its steps. It is the leap that goes on to support even greater attempts at the seemingly impossible challenges that the world often uses to sort the men from the boys, and of course, the women from the girls!

Only a master weaver could intertwine dark and light threads in such a way that all one saw was beauty when looking back at the finished tapestry.

We learn much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts are made better. -Bishop Milton Wright to Orville Wright, 20 Sept. 1908

Adversity is hidden treasure of life.

You can__ take credit for what you do when your back is against the wall.

Be brave. Take the hill. But first answer the question, "What is my hill?

You have been cast into a race in which the wind is always at your face and the hounds are always at your heels. And to varying degrees this is true of all life. The difference is that you do not have the privilege of living in ignorance of this essential fact.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That__ what life__ all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

Our perceptions shape whether challenges are obstacles that block our path to success or important arrows that steer us in the direction we want to go.

Ignorance is avoiding that which stands in front of me out of the misplaced hope that it will put what I__ ignoring behind me. Instead, it__ most certain to drop it on top of me.

Adaptation is the key to survival.

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

With patience endurance, you can survive any storm.

To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.

Per aspera ad astra, Papa,' I whispered. Through hardship to the stars.