You need a little friction

What's holding you back might be holding you afloat

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
–Henry David Thoreau

In undergrad, I came across Immanuel Kant’s sole readable line:

The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would still be easier in empty space.
–Introduction, Critique of Pure Reason

What you think is holding yo…