Quotes About Obstacle

The problem with life was that even if you didn't go looking for trouble, trouble sometimes came looking for you.

Reginald Hill

Midnight is not in everyman's reach.

The shortest distance between two points may well be the wrong way on a one way street.

Yeah. I'm the fly in the soup. I don't like it any better than you do. Flies don't like being swamped in soup, especially when it's hot.

The fat was in the fire, and the problem was dodging the spatters.

but I knew from long experience that you never knew when you were going to run up against someone with as many feet as a centipede and all of them reluctant.

If you're facing a problem, or you've hit a dead end and you can't see any way out, the act of deep gratitude will clear the way. It's as though your gratitude causes the Universe to issue a "free pass" that enables you to jump over the obstacle. Suddenly you find the obstacle you were facing diminishes or disappears and your way ahead is made clear, or you find the solution and with it the obstacle is overcome.

Your biggest enemy, as I can attest from having worked with thousands of people just like you, is yourself. Without question, procrastination is the most common cause of financial failure.

Druids always pick the hard way; it encourages natural selection.

In my experience, the biggest challenge people face is learning to get out of their own way. When you can see just how easy change can be, you can begin to take control over your life and make all the changes you want—but you need to take the action.

Often we can do more to facilitate good behavior by removing some small obstacle than by trying to shove people in a certain direction.

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater obstacle, and he realized it now, understood it at long last. And understanding it seemed to give him a sort of quiet peace, a sense of having spread all the cards on his mental table, examined them, and settled conclusively on the desired hand.

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater obstacle, and he realized it now, understood it at long last.

Goddamn your bones, that is the first step.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution.

Gossip is not a right but a major obstacle to human love and spiritual wisdom. Paul lists it equally with the much more grievous "hot sins" (Romans 1:29–31), and yet most of us do it rather easily.

What did it mean that he had so little access to something as straightforward as what he really wanted?

These days his own storytelling was undermined by his stammer, as well as by his conviction that a story had to be true.

Tyson, I said We're turning around! Going the wrong way? he asked. Always, I grumbled, but I steered the chariot towards the stands.

What did he say? Hazel asked. With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top, Percy replied.

Of course, Annabeth wouldn't be able to breathe, but at the moment, that seemed like a minor problem.

She decided to make his life as terrible, tragic and complicated as possible, so that some day Percy Jackson would have a really hard time writing about it.

Some problems even duct tape couldn't solve.