# The Obstacle Is the Way  ## Metadata - Author: [[Ryan Holiday]] - Full Title: The Obstacle Is the Way - Category: #books ## Highlights - “The Things which hurt,” Benjamin Franklin wrote, “instruct.” ([Location 212](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00G3L1B8K&location=212)) - “Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life,” he once said. “I shall never cease to be grateful for the three and half years of apprenticeship and the difficulties to be overcome, all along the way.” ([Location 279](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00G3L1B8K&location=279))