Positive action generates positive thinking, not the other way around. Positive action is a choice, one that can be challenging, especially for people who've experienced much suffering and pain in their lives - but it's still a choice.
Pope Francis is not only changing the face of the Catholic Church, he's challenging us to be the face of God in the world by seeing the face of God in the person we least expect to see it, including the person in the mirror.
You stand up to that challenging shot, you put yourself into that shot, and you pour yourself into it confidently. Stand up and commit yourself completely. If you miss it, you miss it certainly. You've done everything you can.
Some of the most challenging moves towards health are made with the simplest of steps and that is why I wrote The Start Here Diet.
As an example, there is a Japanese composer singer whose name is Tanimura [Shinji]: he has composed a song entitled entitled "Kazeno Komoriuta" and I have recorded my piano adaptation of this song and honestly I couldn't expect that it would be so difficult and challenging for me to perform my piano version of this beautiful song.
My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself
It's important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again.
With American Morons, Glen Hirshberg confidently shoulders his way through the generational pack to claim his rightful place on the summit. These stories are smart, challenging, ripe with feeling, expansive in every way: Horror as it should be writ, and as only the best and most expressive can write it.
I understand that being optimistic in this age is challenging, but I am optimistic nonetheless.
The most challenging scene for me was the spider scene, because I don't like spiders in real life. Even rubber ones I get really scared of.
We live in a complex world and at a challenging time.
Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.
It's a great honour to be part of such an iconic brand as Paco Rabanne. As I said, it was totally different for me, so it was quite challenging in a sense, but it's an experience that I'm really enjoying.
Of course, every actor has their box and you have to respect and play for it, but I do love challenging myself. I love every role to be new, and I always like to bring a freshness to every character I play.
I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
. . . home-schooled students are able to successfully adapt emotionally, interpersonally, and academically to their first, and most challenging, semester in college. That is probably because, having had the consistent teaching and support of a family and a community, they have developed strengths and convictions that provide a bridge over the troubled waters of a multitude of challenges and temptations.
Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn't it
Romcoms are challenging, but I'm hungry for drama.
Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.