Quotes About Obstacles

Your hand is small, yet it can completely cover the power, light and majesty of the great sun. In the same way, the small problems manage to give you the excuse you need in order to hinder your progress along your spiritual journey.

There are two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of wheel fortune, when you least expected it.

If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination.

Not everything in life is a long train with tickets available to all.

If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your denstination.

It was fuckups within fuckups.

What we call obstacles are really the way the world and our entire experience teach us where we're stuck.

What awakens my heart, and what blocks that process from happening?

Any experience can be made into a further blockage or can become a way of freeing ourselves.

Working with obstacles is life's journey. The warrior is always coming up against dragons. Of course the warrior gets scared, particularly before the battle. It's frightening. But with a shaky, tender heart the warrior realizes that he or she is just about to step into the unknown, and then goes forth to meet the dragon.

Trungpa Rinpoche once said that the dharma has to be experienced because when the real quality of our lives, including the obstacles and problems and experiences that cause us to start questioning, becomes intense, any mere philosophical belief isn't going to hold a candle to the reality of what we are experiencing.

It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.

When you have a dream, it's going to be a lot of "I can't" people. You need to be the driving force to say I can.

Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.

Obstacles aren't there to stop you. They are put there to show you how powerful you can feel when you run right over them.

Most great products have been made over the dead bodies of experts.

Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress.

Do you know why that cow looks over that wall? She looks over the wall because she cannot see through it, and that is what you must do with your troubles... Look over and above them.

Your attitude towards problems, difficulties, and adversities is the most important factor in overcoming them.

View the events you consider obstacles as perfect opportunities to test your resolve and find your purpose.

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

El tiempo nunca se detiene. Todos tenemos sitios a donde ir y obstáculos que superar

Soon the floor in front of us is littered with the corpses of unfinished songs.

What behavior might undermine what I'm doing, and how can I prevent it?