Four obstacles to confronting our dream

1.  We are told from childhood that everything we want to do is impossible.

2.  Love.  We are afraid of hurting those around us by abandoning everything in order to pursue our dream.

3.  Fear of the defeats we will meet on the path.  

4.  Fear of realizing the dream for which we fought all our lives.... The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt.  We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. 

from Paulo Coelho's "The Alchemist"