Dealing with obstacles

Over the past several months, I have been slowly reading The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph Here are some quotes: “We forget: In life, it doesn’t matter what happens to you or where you came from. It matters what you do with what happens and what you’ve been given.” “The only guarantee, ever, is that things will go wrong. The only thing we can use to mitigate this is anticipation. Because the only variable we control completely is ourselves.” “It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life—that’s persistence.” “The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.” “All great victories, be they in politics, business, art, or seduction, involved resolving vexing problems with a potent cocktail of creativity, focus, and daring. When you have a goal, obstacles are actually teaching you how to get where you want to go—carving you a path. “The Things which hurt,” Benjamin Franklin wrote, “instruct.” This book follows a stoic philosophy. “What matters most is not what these obstacles are but how we see them, how we react to them, and whether we keep our composure.” As I read this philosophy, our challenge involves accepting obstacles and then using those obstacles to ...
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