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«When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.»
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski
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obstacle
«The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
| About:
Ignorance,
Illusion,
Obstacles
| Keywords:
continents, discovering, obstacle, oceans
«We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
| About:
Failure
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assures, experimentation, exploration, fumble, fumbles, fumbling, narrowing, obstacle, prevents, progressive, The Progressive
«The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.»
Author: Les Brown
(Author, Entrepreneur, motivational speaker)
| Keywords:
apparent, baggage, considerable, fulfilling, insecurities, obstacle
«Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.»
Author: Meister Eckhart
(Theologian, Writer)
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affections, obstacle, taint, Taints, temporal, temporalities, temporality
«The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.»
«The greatest obstacle to being heroic is to doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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heroic, heroism, obeyed, obstacle, profoundest, resisted, truest
«The pope-and we know this well-is without doubt the most serious obstacle on the ecumenical road.»
«The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
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aggression, aggressions, constitutes, culture, disposition, independent, innate, obstacle, tendency
«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.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
cutting, cutting off, intensely, mystic, mystics, obstacle, passively, stillness, The Hunger, thirst, uncontrolled
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