#rob

When you sense that something is wrong, instead of letting everybody know about it, first figure out what it is. ↗

— Fritzyll

#problem-solving #life

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#klaus #problem-solving #reading #life

It was not like the old days and they both knew it. They were weighed down by the awareness of their failed relationship, of the wasted years, of the feelings that were no more, of the shared life that had unravelled. They were like weary receivers winding up a bankruptcy; all that remained was to tie up the loose ends and settle the final claims." (Black Skies) ↗

— Arnaldur Indriðason

#relationship-quotes #life

Be confident in your approach to success in having a better future. Take risks, try new things, become diligent, and find new techniques because in the end you will develop a compelling emotional element. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#problems #success #life

Life's adventures make great reading! ↗

— Denise Robbins

#books #denise-robbins #read #writing #life

Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures. ↗

— Christian Smith

#human-nature #humanism #identity #personalism #personhood

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem. ↗

— Whitney M. Young

#liberalism #people #problem #related #seems

«I realize there are a lot of things I haven't shared with you.» «That's because you don't trust me, father.» «I didn't trust you, Damian, do you really think you'd be standing here--my life's most safeguarded secrets accessible?» «Sometimes I think your secrets have secrets» ↗

— Peter J. Tomasi

#bruce-wayne #damian-wayne #robin #life

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. ↗

— Rod Sterling

#impossible #improbable #possible #probable #science-fiction

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#knowledge #problems #information