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We cannot solve a problem by saying,
by M. Scott Peck

We cannot solve a problem by saying,
"It's not my problem."
We cannot solve a problem by hoping that
someone else will solve it for us.
I can solve a problem only when I say,
"This is my problem and it's up to me to solve it.
- M. Scott Peck

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The secret of success is to find a need and fill it,
to find a hurt and heal it,
to find somebody with a problem
and offer to help solve it.
- Robert H. Schuller

We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Intellectuals solve problems,
geniuses prevent them.
- Albert Einstein

You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein

The difference between what we do
and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Often the hands will solve a mystery
that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
- Carl Jung

Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs
and does not help to solve them, is no religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
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You have to realize: OK, I don't know how
to solve a political problem,
I don't know how to solve the pollution problem...
all I know is in my own life,
I need to figure out some sense of purpose,
I need to figure out how to be happy...
and I'm willing.
- Jewel

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa,
whereby its leaders combine in their efforts
to solve the problems of this continent.
I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests,
of all our great wildernesses.
- Nelson Mandela

The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach,
but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect,
we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
- Anthony Robbins

The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines

When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.
If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

All progress is precarious, and the solution
of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein

The acceptance of oneself is
the essence of the whole moral problem
and the epitome of a whole outlook on life.
- Carl Jung

Problem: attitude.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

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.
- John F. Kennedy

Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman

If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

If the problem can be solved,
there is no use worrying about it.
If it can't be solved,
worrying will do no good.
- Tibetan proverb

No problem is so formidable that
you can't walk away from it.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts

A perfection of means,
and confusion of aims,
seems to be our main problem.
- Albert Einstein

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche
that must have been left behind in the Sixties,
that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
- John Lennon

I have treated many hundreds of patients.
Among those in the second half of life -
that is to say, over 35 -
there has not been one whose problem in the last resort
was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
- Carl Jung

One of the greatest titles we can have is "old friend."
We never appreciate how important old friends are until we are older.
The problem is we need to start our old friendships when we are young.
We then have to nurture and grow those friendships over our middle age
when a busy life and changing geographies
can cause us to neglect those friends.
Today is the day to invest in those people
we hope will call us "old friend" in the years to come.
- Grant Fairley

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem.
It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Albert Einstein

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem -
and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The whole problem with the world is that
fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.
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The problem in defense is
how far you can go without destroying from within
what you are trying to defend from without.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law.
It's nine-tenths of the problem.
- John Lennon

We may not always be aware of it, but we all create
and repeat affirmations constantly.
The problem is, we typically don't pay attention
to exactly what those affirmations are saying.
Often we go through the day giving ourselves
all sorts of contradictory, or even negative messages.
We may project confidence to the world around us,
while our inner dialogue says...
I hope this works.
I am so nervous about this.
I hope I don't blow it.
Affirmations are self fulfilling prophecies.
If we say, This is never going to work
... then chances are excellent it never will.
- John Assaraf

I love my attitude problem.
- Anonymous

Now we have a problem in making our power credible,
and Vietnam is the place.
- John F. Kennedy

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
- Art Buchwald

For every complex problem,
there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
- H.L. Mencken

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:
it is those who know little, and not those who know much,
who so positively assert that this or that problem
will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed,
the oldest problem in the relations between human beings,
and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem,
of what to say and how to say it.
- Edward R. Murrow

Life is an organic whole. The basic problems of the people -
poverty, ignorance, disease and civic inertia - interlock.
To address one problem, we must address all.
Hence our emphasis on an integrated program
of livelihood, education, health and self-government.
- Jimmy Yen

The older I get, the more wisdom I find
in the ancient rule of taking first things first.
A process which often reduces
the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
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Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
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We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
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To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
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You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
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Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
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I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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