Sentences with phrase «life is an obstacle»

It is a fact that sometimes our life is the obstacle we need to overcome.

What can schools do for pupils whose home life is an obstacle to academic success?

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«Life is all about overcoming obstacles,» Will says, «and quite often you as an individual who has to get over those obstacles... but the truth is, you don't do most things in life on your Life is all about overcoming obstacles,» Will says, «and quite often you as an individual who has to get over those obstacles... but the truth is, you don't do most things in life on your life on your own.

That «I think I can do it» is key — Musk's gut level faith in his ability to achieve any goal, and overcome any obstacle, is one of the most important aspects of his character that has made him a larger - than - life innovator.

One of the trickiest parts was to maneuver yourself safely but quickly into a rope obstacle known as the slide for life.

But what if your life is relatively charmed and you're just not facing all that many obstacles?

It is that solid state of mind which seemingly carries you effortlessly through life's problems, obstacles and difficult communications.

«Success isn't measured by the position you reach in life; it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.»

This is a story of how I leveraged the single most trying obstacle of my life to come back stronger, refined and more focused than ever before.

The point of this column is that we all have major life obstacles that we face, and having the right mindset will empower you to leverage these obstacles to your advantage.

Figure out who you want to be, and what you want in life, and use your drive, hunger and ambition to overcome your obstacles.

It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft.

That's why Ryan Holiday, the author of The Obstacle Is the Way and The Daily Stoic, created the Memento Mori medallion, a coin I now carry with me everywhere that serves as a physical reminder that «You could leave life right now.»

Obstacles don't have to be business breakers in your life.

With battery life the major complaint of many smartphone users, and especially iPhone users, that's another obstacle to smartwatch acceptance.

(Green has also acknowledged, in what sounds like a nod to the workplace obstacles she faced,» «We Try Harder» is somewhat the story of my life.»)

It's hard enough to get ahead in spite of all the obstacles you'll face throughout your life and your career.

It's the people with intestinal fortitude who have overcome obstacles and persevered in life who may turn out to be your best hires.

It does not matter what you're facing in life, which obstacle you're trying to overcome — if you are willing to generate that state of willingness, that's your doorway to making the effort, taking the steps, dealing with the setbacks, and ultimately creating the progress and change in your life that you're seeking.

Think of your life dream as analogous to your destination — if you find a boulder in the road, you're more likely to quickly find a way around this obstacle and successfully re-orientate yourself if you have a clear picture of where you're trying to end up, rather than if you are simply putting one foot in front of another on the path immediately in front of you.

Since you will not likely all live in the same geographic area, making an annual trip together is a great opportunity to go deep, set goals, and overcome obstacles in a new setting.

For many of us chronic procrastinators — don't worry, we've been there too — too often it seems like life becomes an insane time management obstacle course.

They're stepping up to take 100 % responsibility in their lives... they're gaining clarity on what their purpose is... and they're clearing their path of the obstacles that have held them back from creating their ideal life.

Through the positive examples of our mentors, we learned an essential law of any faith life: Complacency is the greatest obstacle to spiritual growth.

But the greater obstacle for the wise men was, well, their wisdom: or, perhaps better, the intellectual pride that's a constant temptation for people who live their professional lives inside their heads.

Yet, when you are alone, when you are in pain, when you get divorced, have an abortion, abuse your chiildren, when some little rocks fall on your life's path and create obstacles that seem unbearable, who do you quietly pray to?

But I want to live in a world where people generally know that the world is not flat, and where science and knowledge can advance without having to overcome religious obstacles.

Holloway, «Slim» to most of his friends, spent his whole life in pastoral work but also managed, despite many obstacles and difficulties, to single - mindedly leave a far - sighted and remarkable theological and philosophical legacy for this millennium, surely the millennium of the harmony of Science and Religion, in which Christ is seen as the Master of both.

It takes an adult self - consciousness — the experience of an adult living and trying to believe but knowing doubt, trying to do the right thing but knowing failure, trying to be confident but sensing despair — to also know that there is a part of God that helps us through those obstacles, a part which is different from God's love or Christ's gift of salvation.

In spite of all the destructive forces man lets loose against life on this planet, the Spirit of Life is at work in ever new and unforeseeable ways, countering and circumventing the obstacles man puts in its plife on this planet, the Spirit of Life is at work in ever new and unforeseeable ways, countering and circumventing the obstacles man puts in its pLife is at work in ever new and unforeseeable ways, countering and circumventing the obstacles man puts in its path.

Rather, let us say that if an earnest Christian can write what the one quoted above did, it is solely because he shares the common presupposition of our times: that poverty is the great calamity and therefore an obstacle to the spiritual life; that the real problem is how to induce the rich to aid the poor; and that otherwise preaching the gospel is hypocrisy.

Is human life an obstacle course, a testing ground?

The pertinent question is: What does «kidvid» offer in the way of imitable heroes who face the kinds of ordinary obstacles with which real life confronts us?

When I stumble over an obstacle and fall, I am obeying the law of gravitation, which has nothing to do with Christian faith or the Christian life.

It is important to know that in developing nations, where many women are living on less than $ 1 or $ 2 per day, the systemic challenges of extreme poverty create obstacles for good health, especially among women and children.

On the other hand, even from a purely natural point of view Christianity, properly preached and lived, is still a match for every other powerful propagandist Weltanschanung, though men's hardness of heart is often an obstacle to its acceptance.

Stronger than every obstacle and counter — argument is the instinct which tells us that, to be faithful to Life, we must know; we must know more and still more; we must tirelessly and unceasingly search for Something, we know not what, which will appear in the end to those who have penetrated to the very heart of reality.

This lady devoted her entire life to helping the poorest people walking our planet, and saw poverty that many of us Westerners can hardly imagine, but she did not say such great poverty was the biggest obstacle to love and peace, but instead it was abortion.

According to Acts of Thomas, the sexual phenomenon is an obstacle to the higher level of life, and only its removal opens the way to eternal life.

«Always and everywhere in the history of religion, the fact that God is identified with success is the greatest obstacle to a steadfast religious life.»

Premised on the idea that the basic activity of life is the inescapable pursuit of what Hobbes called the «power after power that ceaseth only in death» — Alexis de Tocqueville would later describe it as «inquietude» or «restlessness» — the endless quest for fewer obstacles to self - fulfillment and greater power to actuate the ceaseless cravings of the human soul requires ever - accelerating forms of economic growth and pervasive consumption.

Life is about overcoming obstacles, and it isnt always fair.

In The Christian Intellectual, Jaroslav Pelikan underscored this dilemma by saying that the most formidable obstacle to the renewal of Christian intellectual life is «a curious alliance between the secular suspicion of an elite that has been characteristic of much of American life and a distorted interpretation of the Reformation doctrine of the universal priesthood of all believers.»

In the case of abortion, the obstacles will often be overcome by factual information about the peaceful, compassionate work of pro-life groups, the damage done to women by abortion, the increasing information on the life of the child in the womb.

Taking Jewish theological distinctiveness seriously is perceived by many as an obstacle to integration in American life; going along with secularism is not perceived as harmful.

The older picture of an inscrutable Absolute in whose hands we can nevertheless at least be sure we are held for good or ill, whether in life or in death, has given way to the modern Bild of a kind of sympathetically groping, eagerly persuasive deity who does the best he can with all sorts of obstacles beyond his control.

Only when you dig deep into the soil of your life, and remove all the barriers and obstacles that have been in the way for so long will you then be able to lay the foundation.

If this can be done we shall have passed beyond the crisis of liberal Christianity; for the liberal view of the relation of Christian love to moral problems is in difficulty today precisely because the philosophy of history on which it is based does not sufficiently recognize the tragic obstacles which are set in the way of the life of love.

This defense of the accuracy of the Fourth Gospel in reporting the words of Jesus is undertaken, in spite of what must appear to the disinterested student insuperable obstacles, because to these lovers of the Gospel the alternative seems to be surrendering the authenticity of some of the most precious and manifestly true of Christ's reported words: «I am the bread of life... I am the light of the world... I am the good shepherd... If you continue in my words... you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free... He that drinketh of this water shall thirst again, but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst... I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live... I am the way, the truth and the life; no one cometh to the Father but by me»... and many more.

It is true that the documentary material about his life is thin, not an uncommon obstacle in the Caribbean, a rough climate for print archives even in countries that haven't spent two centuries mired in anarchy.