#obstacle

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique. And that's what I know for sure... I think. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#depth #fun #give #happen #i

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#along #become #cutting #desire #desires

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#center #change #characters #conflicts #defining

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#fire #further #go #must #obstacle

Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that. ↗

— Boris Kodjoe

#because #everybody #fond #goes #hurt

Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families. ↗

— Kendrick Meek

#american #american families #biggest #biggest obstacle #consistently

Everyone has obstacles, and you're not going to have the right answer or do the right thing every single time. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#do the right thing #every #everyone #going #obstacles

We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment. ↗

— Olusegun Obasanjo

#genuine #investment #laws #obstacles #our

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#biggest #dependent #easier #fight #happiness

The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#better #better person #biggest #biggest obstacle #good