Quotes About Obstacles

What Mogo did was to take ultimate action to improve his quality of life. This is at the root of murder. We kill people to make our own lives better. We kill them because they are obstacles to our desires, because they make us unhappy, because they burden us, or because they keep calling us fucking wizards. Murder increases happiness.

If you believe it will work out, you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't, you will see obstacles.

For decades now I've encouraged everyone to believe that making a good living at what you love is a possibility. If you stay on purpose and are committed to following your bliss, the universal one mind will cooperate with you in bringing this to fruition. The right people will show up, the obstacles will be swept away, the necessary circumstances will materialize, and guidance will be there.

My book is developing into a guide for cutting through a lifetime of emotional red tape. I've written it not because of my advanced educational training, but more in spite of it.

This is true for every aspect of your life: The more you push against it, the more resistance you create.

Is not it interesting that you had everything you needed in the first nine months, why is not that true for the next ninety years, because we interfere.

look back at those huge obstacles—such as illness, accidents, addiction, financial loss, children's struggles, and divorce—and see in retrospect that they were actually gifts disguised as problems.

The more you push against it, the more resistance you create.

Surely, I thought, a few bushes and some dilapidated wood couldn't stop someone's best and brightest blessing! Surely not!

I had trouble climbing little trees and monkey bars. A roof1.

The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around.

There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants.

If it wasn't one thing it was another, and it never mattered which. Always something to run away from, no matter what, no matter why, as though you'd been born with a consciousness of guilt and would find that thing to feel guilty about regardless.

No problem is so big or so complicated that it can't be run away from!

solutions are beyond the reach of the electoral process and legislative process.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

We seemed to think that if there were men we could fight them, and if there were only women—why, they would be no obstacles at all. Jeff, with his gentle romantic old-fashioned notions of women as clinging vines. Terry, with his clear decided practical theories that there were two kinds of women—those he wanted and those he didn't; Desirable and Undesirable was his demarcation. The latter as a large class, but negligible—he had never thought about them at all.

Muddy waters should never prevent proper navigation of the ship or the spirit.

The source of stillness is in emptiness. All things and the changes they go through are but temporary conditions, which finally return to nothingness, then revert to emptiness. As long as the human mind is not still and quiet, there will be thoughts of desire remaining, which create tremendous obstacles to the cultivation of refinement.

Are you really not going to pursue your dream because you now have one more bill than you had before? Are you truly so cowed by adversity?

Crap happens in life. It could happen tonight.

language, the second hindrance is the attitude. There are two attitudes— first, the

United wishes and goodwill cannot overcome brute facts.

People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross.