Adversity Quote by Harry Stack Sullivan

The sickness of indulging desires can be treated, but the sickness of clinging to abstract principles is hard to treat. Obstacles presented by events…

— Zicheng Hong

“The difficulties (which other people surely find incredible) I have in speaking to people arise from the fact that my thinking, or rather the…

— Franz Kafka

“We believe that we can change the things around us in accordance with our desires—we believe it because otherwise we can see no favourable…

— Marcel Proust

“But there are indeed specific obstacles to change, which different people experience in different ways. In some sense, what we are calling obstacles to…

— Rhoda Baruch

“There must be something changeless that is true! When we are anchored and invulnerable down deep, we can be open and vulnerable on the…

— Stephen R. Covey

Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only possible for…

— Robert Grudin

Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

What is needed is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness.

— Neale Donald Walsch

“manner, a change of circumstance happens as a result of a change in your state of consciousness.”

— Neville

“As pervasive as medicine has become in modern life, it remains mostly hidden and often misunderstood. We have taken it to be both more…

— Gawande Atul

“I have worked with many people over the years who struggled with basically hopeless problems – negative situations that for the most part could…

— Kimberly Giles

“Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.”

— Allan Lokos