Quotes About Obstacles

Morin's now-famous "erotic equation" states that "attraction plus obstacles equal excitement."6 High states of arousal, he explains, flow from the tension between persistent problems and triumphant solutions.

We bitch about our difficulties along the rough surface of our path, we curse every sharp stone underneath, until at some point in our maturation, we finally look down to see that they are diamonds.

Boccio, author of Mindfulness Yoga, to think about as he leaves the session: "We bitch about our difficulties along the rough surface of our path, we curse every sharp stone underneath, until at some point in our maturation, we finally look down to see that they are diamonds.

Frank Jude Boccio, author of Mindfulness Yoga, to think about as he leaves the session: "We bitch about our difficulties along the rough surface of our path, we curse every sharp stone underneath, until at some point in our maturation, we finally look down to see that they are diamonds.

I learned that evening that rain falls equally on all things. Jealousy, fear, and anger are obstacles to a knight's first goal: a clear mind.

Jealousy, fear, and anger are all obstacles to a knight's first goal: a clear mind

Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome," Jimmy

Like Phoenix, you work all your life to find your way, through all the obstructions and the false appearances and the upsets you may have brought on yourself, to reach a meaning—using inventions of your imagination, perhaps helped out by your dreams and bits of good luck. And finally too, like Phoenix, you have to assume that what you are working in aid of is life, not death. But you would make the trip anyway—wouldn't you?—just on hope. 1974

She was struck, too, by how often in this sad life a person's gifts are useless in helping him fulfill his true desire.

Sometimes you don't get to choose your struggles—they choose you.

A man who believes that a convincing lie can shape the cosmos in a way he sees fit may not have a problem erasing one or two inconvenient barriers in his path. Obstacles that happen to be sitting in his private jet.

Spike traps are not my friends. Spike traps are the enemy. I will avoid them at all costs.

Chapter XVIII – Everything That Could Possibly Go Wrong

I don't know why I have a pattern of running into hand-destroying situations, but that seems to be my lot in life.

Yet for all her solitariness, or her self-sufficiency, she lacked an overriding philosophy to help her deal with encroachments, incursions, and thus fell at the first fence.

Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward.

You want to do what you love, but stuff overshadows it, so it makes it a little harder for people to take me seriously.

Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody else that we will overcome.

Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest.

My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.

Life is like a Lamborghini. A Lamborghini has an engine, a body, and wheels. No matter how strong your engine is, if you don't have any wheels, you're not going anywhere.

If traffic is congested and our roads are blocked, transportation is slowed and the wheels of economic progress are slowed.