#pro

Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#complaining #remaining-silent #problems

My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#mind #mystery #rebellion #sherlock-holmes #stagnation

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#god #john #judas #problems

The problem about the future is that it keeps turning into the present. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#problems

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink. ↗

— Tom Waits

#drinking #problems

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#philosophy #problems

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#philosophy #scientific-process #truth #perception

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#pride #self-improvement #christianity

All problems are illusions of the mind. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#mind #problem #teaching

Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent . . . it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don’t hesitate. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#dimitri #mead #richelle #vampire-academy #wonder