Our Problems Quotes
265 quotes by 215 authors
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely…
— Carl Sagan
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We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant…
— Boyd K. Packer
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Why do we focus so intensely on our problems? What draws us to them? Why are they so attractive? They have the magnet power of…
— James Hillman
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For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel.…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget…
— Glenn Beck
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will…
— Bell Hooks
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It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said. It seems to be true,' he admitted. 'I wonder why.'…
— David Gemmell
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And our problems will crumble apart, the soul / blow through like a wind, and here where we live will all be clean again, with…
— Pablo Neruda
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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each…
— John Ortberg
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Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large.…
— Daniel Goleman
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I feel that we should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human beings. I think…
— Ruth Hurmence Green
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Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.
— Jodi Picoult
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There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we…
— Christopher McDougall
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Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
— Dorothy Day
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We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.
— Christopher McDougall
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The world is not something separate from you and me; the world, society, is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions.…
— C.S. Lewis
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He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely...
— Corrie Ten Boom
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There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.
— Fred Rogers
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Everything has happened before - not once, but over and over again. We may not be able to solve our problems through what are pompously…
— Barbara Mertz
Who Wrote These Our Problems Quotes
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