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“If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“A person willing to understand catches even the smallest clue, but one unwilling to understand will never get it, no matter how much you raise your voice.”
― Sanu Sharma, अर्क�� देशम�� [Arko Deshma]

“One who intends to understand grasps even the slightest hint, but the one who has no intention to understand never comprehends, no matter how loudly you shout.”
― Sanu Sharma, अर्क�� देशम�� [Arko Deshma]

“जसको कुरा बुझ्ने नियत हुन्��, उसले इशार�� गरेक�� पन�� बुझ्��; तर जसको बुझ्ने मनसा�� हुँदैन, उसले कत्तिक�� जोडल�� चिच्या�� पन�� बुझ्दै��, सुन्दै�� ��”
― Sanu Sharma, अर्क�� देशम�� [Arko Deshma]

“Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.”
― Blaise Pascal, �ʱ�Բ�é���

“Stubbornness is a weapon.
People tend to draw it out when a sensitive part of their identity is threatened—be it dignity, honor, pride, desires, etc. If loaded with righteous resolve, stubbornness can assist in overcoming obstacles and achieving great feats; however, more often than not it is loaded with anger, used as a means of destruction for both the possessor and those whom he turns his weapon upon. It is best utilized by wise individuals who are able to dispassionately perceive if their stubbornness will accomplish good, or if it should be put away and replaced by a humble substitute to spare the lives of everyone affected.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“Repetition of an argument proves your determination, not truth.”
― Raheel Farooq, Kalam

“When someone “can not�� or will not let go of some notion, injustice or loss, a fixation can develop, which can “fix�� that person in place. When a person, a soul (or a group), becomes stuck or fixated on some specific perspective or emotion to the exclusion of the bigger picture, one can get a distorted view, one can be lost for a while. I am reminded of the saying one can't see the forest for the trees, for short-sightedness, especially combined with reactive emotions, obstinacy, and even obsessiveness, can cause one to lose all proportion and perspective. One can lose one's bearings; One can get lost.”
― Stephen Poplin, Inner Journeys, Cosmic Sojourns: Life transforming stories, adventures and messages from a spiritual hypnotherapist's casebook

“Moreover, vulgar and casual opinions are something more than nothing in nature; and he who will not suffer himself to proceed so far, falls, peradventure, into the vice of obstinacy, to avoid that of superstition.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“Let us remember that we are all in the same condition as Abraham. Our circumstances are all in opposition to the promises of God. He promises us immortality: yet we are surrounded by mortality and corruption. He declares that He accounts us just: yet we are covered with sins. He testifies that Her is propitious and benevolent towards us: yet outward signs threaten His wrath. What then are we to do? We must close our eyes, disregard ourselves and all things connected with us, so that nothing may hinder or prevent us from believing that God is true.

Calvin's Commentaries: The Epistles of Paul The Apostle to the Romans and to the Thessalonians, eds. David W Torrance and T. F. Torrance (Edinburgh, 1961), p. 99.”
― John Calvin, Commentary on Romans

“One is to cross this ocean in the form of obstinacy. We are standing on this side of obstinacy and we have to go to the other side. If someone becomes instrumental in removing your obstinacy; do not be disturbed about it, consider him to be extremely beneficial and undergo that experience with equanimity.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“If you deal obstinacy with obstinacy in this world; resolution will not come. Simplicity against obstinacy will bring about resolution.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Worldly life is not an impediment; your obstinacies and your ignorance of the self are only the impediments.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Life is a closed loop control system. You take inputs from your environment, from what you read, from your social interactions and from your family and it goes as a feedback into your system, modifying you a little every day. Those who are obstinate are like an open loop control system where nothing affects them. It isn’t really good to remain in an open loop for not only will you be isolated, but also miss out important things in life. It isn’t too wise either to let that feedback system be so strong that you forget your own ideals and principles. A balance is necessary.”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra

“I had of course met with incredulity..., but seldom with a will to incredulity.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“One should not be obstinate even in worldly interaction. If you are obstinate with a ‘collector��, what will he do? He will throw you in a jail. So then what will happen if you are obstinate in front of God? God won’t put you in jail, but his contentment towards you will break away.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“Look at that blacksmith, for instance,�� went on Father Brown calmly; “a good man, but not a Christian �� hard, imperious, unforgiving. Well, his Scotch religion was made up by men who prayed on hills and high crags, and learnt to look down on the world more than to look up at heaven. Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown

“He was a good, even a shining light as a Castalian to the extent that he had a many-sided mind, tirelessly active in scholarship as well as in the art of the Glass Bead Game, and enormously hard-working; but in character, in his attitude toward the hierarchy and the morality of the Order he was a very mediocre, not to say bad Castalian. The greatest of his vices was a persistent neglect of meditation, which he refused to take seriously. The purpose of meditation, after all, is adaptation of the individual to the hierarchy, and application in it might very well have cured him of his neurasthenia. For it infallibly helped him whenever, after a period of bad conduct, excessive excitement, or melancholia, his superiors disciplined him by prescribing strict meditation exercises under supervision. Even Knecht, kindly disposed and forgiving though he was, frequently had to resort to this measure.
There was no question about it: Tegularius was a willful, moody person who refused to fit into his society. Every so often he would display the liveliness of his intellect. When highly stimulated he could be entrancing; his mordant wit sparkled and he overwhelmed everyone with the audacity and richness of his sometimes somber inspirations. But basically he was incurable, for he did not want to be cured; he cared nothing for co-ordination and a place in the scheme of things. He loved nothing but his freedom, his perpetual student status, and preferred spending his whole life as the unpredictable and obstinate loner, the gifted fool and nihilist, to following the path of subordination to the hierarchy and thus attaining peace. He cared nothing for peace, had no regard for the hierarchy, hardly minded reproof and isolation. Certainly he was a most inconvenient and indigestible component in a community whose idea was harmony and orderliness. But because of this very troublesomeness and indigestiblity he was, in the midst of such a limpid and prearranged little world, a constant source of vital unrest, a reproach, an admonition and warning, a spur to new, bold, forbidden, intrepid ideas, an unruly, stubborn sheep in the herd. And, to our mind, this was the very reason his friend cherished him.”
― Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game

“Simply refusing to believe something does not render it untrue.”
― Mark Scheel

“Flowing egoism is not objectionable but if it is caught-up even a little-bit; it is known as obstinacy. Flowing egoism is dramatic egoism. It is not problematic.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“What is it that doesn’t allow you to go to moksha? Obstinacy!”
― Dada Bhagwan

“In the time before Gnan (time before 1958 when Dada Bhagwan got manifested) there was obstinacy within me. ‘I�� discovered that obstinacy does not let the light of Gnan (Eternal Knowledge) to come through. Then I saw all that obstinacy, and it was destroyed. Thereafter the Gnan (Eternal Knowledge) manifested. One has to observe one’s own self that where lies the obstinacies. The Self is an observatory itself.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“One should not be obstinate even in worldly interaction. If you are obstinate with a ‘collector��, what will he do? He will throw you in jail. So then what will happen if you are obstinate with God? God won’t put you in jail, but his happiness upon you will break (will go away).”
― Dada Bhagwan

“There should be no tenacity of insistence or obstinate insistence of any kind. If there is any tenacity, it should be the kind that will go away if you tell it to!”
― Dada Bhagwan

“If you use obstinacy against obstinacy in this world; you will never come up with a solution. Simplicity against obstinacy will bring about the solution.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“He continued to wait as if the force of his obstinacy would influence Judith's actions and will.”
― Antonio Muñoz Molina, In the Night of Time

“Simply refusing to believe a thing does not, in itself, render it untrue.”
― Mark Scheel

“Eighty-three years old. A lifetime of being a bachelor. This extended life of aloneness might have an effect on a man's character, might it not? Independence might have rusted into obstinacy.”
― Jonathan Lee, The Great Mistake