“A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a woman is continually thwarted. Inert and pliant at the same time, she must struggle against both the softness of her flesh and subjection to the law. Her will, like the veil tied to her hat by a string, flutters with every breeze; there is always some desire luring her on, some convention holding her back.” MenLawDesirePassionWomenPleasureStruggleLandTasteOvercomingObstaclesFleshHatsStringsConventionsTiedVeilsBreezeSoftnessSubjection Book:Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Source: Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we want to get rid of war we must get rid first of all of its psychological causes. Only when this has been done will the rulers of the nations even desire to get rid of the economic and political causes.” IfsWantFirstsHumansHas BeensWarRealDoneFeelingsPoliticalDesireTurnsNationsCausesOpinionEconomicPrejudiceConvictionObstaclesPsychologicalRulersHuman Will Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals
“Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life , given to search for truthand to helping people, and realization makes noble virtue easy and spontaneous, by removing for good the obstacles in the shape of desires and fears and wrong ideas .” PeopleIdeasHelpingDesireGivenEasyGoalVirtueShapesCleanObstaclesNobleDevotionRealizationSpontaneousHelping PeopleOrderlySearch For TruthWrong Ideas Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.” InspirationalMeanFacesDesireVisionPracticePerfectionDancingDanceObstaclesGenerosityInvitingChoreographersDance Performance Author:Martha Graham
“If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that might actually thwart your desire to graduate with a science or math degree.” IfsSelfMightDesireParentDevelopmentDegreesObstaclesMathGraduatesSelf DevelopmentHarvardBillionaireOxford Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I've always been attracted to characters with insurmountable odds and obstacles, because innately, however inarticulately I've always believed that my dreams and my desires can command and bend time and space to be the things that I want them to be.” WantCharacterDreamDesireSpaceObstaclesCommandOddsEnd TimesTime And SpaceAlways BelieveInsurmountableInsurmountable Odds Author:Will Smith
“In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering. It is the cause of repeated births and deaths. It is the obstacle in the way of liberation.” WayShouldDesireSufferingCausesBirthRootsObstaclesLiberationOne WordBirth And Death Author:Sarada Devi
“Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.” Life IsDesireInspiredObstaclesFulfilledFulfilled Life Author:Rod Stryker
“Mastery is not a function of I.Q. or natural talent or wealthy parents who can send you to the best school, but rather the result of going through a learning process, fueled by the desire to grow and the persistence to push past any obstacles.” SchoolPastDesireGrowsProcessParentNaturalResultsTalentFunctionObstaclesPersistenceWealthyMasteryLearning ProcessNatural TalentBest School Author:Robert Greene