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When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a compulsion to get something - anything - before it is all gone.
The Winter of Our Discontent
You don't have problems, only a capacity for feeling anxious about them, which shifts and jostles but doesn't change.
The Rachel Papers
Problems can only be solved by the people who have them. You have to try and coax them and love them into seeing ways in which they can help themselves.
Independent (London) (1990)
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
Politicians, ideologists, theologians and philosophers try time and again to provide solutions with nothing remaining: prefab solved problems.
The future will present insurmountable problems - only when we consider them insurmountable.
Pathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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