Hindrance Quotes - Page 7

• Good cheer is no hindrance to a good life.

  Aristippus

  Cheer, Good Life, Appetite

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• help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Growing, Helping, Positively

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1912). “A Montessori Mother”

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• All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Spiritual, Law, Bears

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• The most complete human being is he or she who consciously or unconsciously obeys the profound physical laws of our being in such a way that the spirit receives as much help and as little hindrance from the body as possible.

  Marie Stopes

  Law, Profound, Body

  Marie Carmichael Stopes (2015). “Married Love: A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties”, p.12, the Pelican Press, London.

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• At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the abstract branches of science, mathematics and theoretical physics, which ... offer a less distorted form of knowledge than other branches of science which are interwoven with the pattern of daily life, and the practicality of which seemingly testifies to their realistic character.

  Max Horkheimer

  Character, Expression, Theoretical Physics

  Max Horkheimer (1972). “Critical Theory: Selected Essays”, p.133, A&C Black

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• How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on remembering the comparative force with which simple ideas are communicated by signs. To say, "Leave the room," is less expressive than to point to the door. Place a finger on the lips is more forcible than whispering, "Do not speak." A beck of the hand is better than, "Come here." No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.

  Herbert Spencer

  Eye, Simple, Doors

  Herbert Spencer (1871). “Essays: Moral, Political and Aesthetic”, p.11

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• The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.

  Martin Luther

  Clergy

  "Table Talk" by Martin Luther, (p. 58), 1569.

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• If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in.

  William Cowper

  Half, Way, Gale

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.171

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• Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.

  Aristotle

  Crush, Pain, Adversity

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

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• Craziness is good. Crazy people are happy, free, they have no hindrance. But since you have many attachment, you are only a little crazy. This is not crazy enough. You must become completely crazy. Then you will understand.

  Seungsahn

  Crazy, Attachment, People

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• Ninety percent of our police are fighting terrorists, so we don't have enough oriented towards their key duty, which is enforcement of the law. But these are precisely the inheritance that we want to overcome. Particularly the mark for success for us would be that a woman can not only walk in the streets of every major city, but can go from one province to another without any hindrance.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Fighting, Keys, Law

  "Transcript: NPR's Interview With Afghan President Ashraf Ghani". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 23, 2015.

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• The principal hindrance to the advancement of the kingdom of God is greed. It is the chief obstacle to heaven-sent revival. It seems that when the back of greed is broken, the human spirit soars into regions of unselfishness. I believe that it is safe to say there can be no continuous revival without 'hilarious' giving. And I fear no contradiction: wherever there is 'hilarious' giving there will soon be revival!

  O. S. Hawkins

  Believe, Heaven Sent, Giving

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• Traveling is not a hindrance for me; it's something I actually enjoy.

  Cobi Jones

  Enjoy

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• I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a hindrance. However flattering order and expediency may look, it is but the repose of a lethargy, and we will choose rather to be awake, though it be stormy, and maintain ourselves on this earth, and in this life, as we may, without signing our death-warrant. Let us see if we cannot stay here, where He has put us, on his own conditions. Does not his law reach as far as his light? The expedients of the nations clash with one another: only the absolutely right is expedient for all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Light, Order

  Henry David Thoreau (1906). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers”

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• No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or father, or child, or mistress, or friend, is hated, abhorred, execrated.

  Epictetus

  Brother, Children, Father

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.173

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• I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope and the books of the sophists.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Kindness, Book

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• I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar has always been the instrument that I've played. I play a little piano. I taught myself everything by ear. I don't read music at all, which has not really been a hindrance.

  Steve Kazee

  Guitar, Years, Play

  "THE LEADING MEN: Steve Kazee, the Traveling Heart of Broadway's Once". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. March 17, 2012.

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• Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.

  Robert Greene

  Believe, Titles, Privilege

  Twitter post from Sep 30, 2014

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• By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart.

  Phillip Moffitt

  Success, Mother, Teacher

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• Blessed, plainly, is that life which is not valued at the estimation of outsiders, but is known, as judge of itself, by its own inner feelings. It needs no popular opinions as its reward in any way; nor has it any fear of punishments. Thus the less it strives for glory, the more it rises above it. For to those who seek for glory, that reward in the shape of present things is but a shadow of future ones, and is a hindrance to eternal life, as it is written in the Scriptures: 'Truly I say to you, they have received their reward'

  Ambrose

  Christian, Blessed, Punishment

  St. Ambrose (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Ambrose (Annotated Edition)”, p.131, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.

  Dogen

  Practice, Distraction, Dharma

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• Understanding that everything is impermanent, that happiness is transformed into suffering, and that all phenomena are lacking reality in themselves and are only projections of our mind, will permit us to counteract the first hindrance to meditation, that is, our attachment to this world.

  Bokar Rinpoche

  Reality, Attachment, Meditation

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