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    “Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles, big or small, and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself. There is no such thing as defeat until you admit so yourself, but not until then!”

    Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts (Page 102)

      “[Bruce Lee’s] answer to problems was to turn a stumbling block into a stepping stone. For instance, when he was confined to bed rest for six months because of a back injury, he used that opportunity to compile his training methods and his philosophical thoughts into several volumes.”

      Linda Lee Cadwell, via Striking Thoughts (Page xvii)

        “Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”

        Margaret Atwood

          “Confront one of your limitations—one of the obstructions in your path—today. Break beyond it, climb over it, think your way around it. Don’t run from it. It was created for you.”

          Robert Greene, The Daily Laws (Page 24)

            “It’s a kind of test, Mary, and it’s the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have your choice. You start to really be alive, or you start to die. That’s all.”

            James Agee, A Death In The Family, via Sunbeams (Page 150)

              “Not every problem needs to be overcome, just the ones stopping you from getting where you want to be.”

              Ann Hill, Twitter

                “While it’s true that someone can impede our actions, they can’t impede our intentions and our attitudes, which have the power of being conditional and adaptable. For the mind adapts and converts any obstacle to its action into a means of achieving it. That which is an impediment to action is turned to advance action. The obstacle on the path becomes the way.”

                Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, The Daily Stoic (Page 195)

                  “Our bodies tell us the truth of life that our minds can deny: that we are in any moment as much about softness as fortitude. Always in need of care and tenderness. Life is fluid, evanescent, evolving in every cell, in every breath. Never perfect. To be alive is by definition messy, always leaning towards disorder and surprise. How we open or close to the reality that we never arrive at safe enduring stasis is the matter, the raw material, of wisdom.”

                  Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise (Page 67)

                    “It had done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.”

                    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, via Sunbeams (Page 109)

                      “Although the world is very full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

                      Helen Keller, via Sunbeams (Page 102)

                      Claire Wineland Quote on Challenges and How To Keep Moving Forward When You Feel Stuck

                        “I’m not stuck in this belief that challenges are given to us to hold us back.  I am lifted up by the belief that challenges are here to help us move forwards—and that is the difference.  That is the only difference between people who are living a passionate, proud life and people who feel sad—or people who get older and feel like they don’t know what they’re doing anymore.”

                        Claire Wineland (15), TEDxMalibu

                        Beyond the Quote (342/365)

                        When you feel stuck in your life it’s because you’ve reached a limit; you’ve hit a wall; you’ve arrived at a boundary; you’ve reached an edge in your understanding. And you can’t pass until you figure out a way to scale the wall; cross the boundary; and/or explore what’s beyond those limits. Figure out being the key phrase in that sentence. Being stuck is a problem to be solved—not a permanent state of being. It involves critical thinking, research and reflection, trial and error, conversation, and more. And while this all may sound obvious, it certainly isn’t common practice.

                        Read More »Claire Wineland Quote on Challenges and How To Keep Moving Forward When You Feel Stuck

                          “If terrible things have happened to you, you ought to have grown wise. If the worst possible events have befallen you, you should be the wisest of the lot. But instead of growing wise, most people become wounded. In a state of conscious response, it is possible to use every life situation—however ugly—as an opportunity for growth. But if you habitually think, ‘I am the way I am because of someone else,’ you are using life situations merely as an opportunity for self-destruction or stagnation.”

                          Sadhguru, Inner Engineering (Page 56)