#solution

But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution. ↗

— Aaron Stanford

#lot #pose #puzzle #questions #shows

[Henry] felt himself bound as much in honour as in affection to Miss Morland, and believing that heart to be his own which he had been directed to gain, no unworthy retraction of a tacit consent, no reversing feared of unjustifiable anger, could shake his fidelity, or influence the resolutions it prompted. ↗

— Jane Austen

#resolution #anger

solutions have a voice - the art is knowing how to listen ↗

— Gino Norris

#listening #options #solutions #voice-of-listening #art

When I solve a problem, I do not think about beauty. But when I have solved it, if it is not beautiful, I know that it is wrong. ↗

— Buckminster Fuller

#solution #beauty

It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#death #freedom #death

From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them, they did not recognize me as something apart from them, and I was happy, so happy, because for the first time in years, and forevermore, I had not killed, and never would. ↗

— George Saunders

#death #dying #happiness #death

In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#danger #direction #ease #find #hard

Is anything truly impossible? Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow? It seems to me that if you seek hard enough, pray hard enough, you usually stumble across a scattering of breadcrumbs that marks the trail leading to the goal you once considered beyond your reach. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dreams #endurance #fortitude #goals #patience

She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring. ↗

— Iain Pears

#freedom #immortality #liberation #meaning #philosophy