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If our society had no social problems at all, the leftists would have to INVENT problems in order to provide themselves with an excuse for making a fuss.

— Ted Kaczynski, Industrial Society and its Future

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To alcohol! The cause of and solution to all of life's problems!

— Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta), The Simpsons, Season 8: Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment

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Running from your problems doesn’t fix them.

— Dr. Robert Borden (Ukweli Roach), Blindspot, Season 1: Rules in Defiance

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Please keep talking so we can all pretend that our problems are just in our heads.

— Syd Barrett (Rachel Keller), Legion, Season 1: Chapter 1

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Alicia: I wanted his problems out of the office. What does that say about me?

Kalinda: It says you're becoming a lawyer.

— Kalinda Sharma (Archie Panjabi), The Good Wife, Season 1: Painkiller

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Why would I want to spend tonight partying with a bunch of people whose biggest problems revolve around whether or not to send their Yorkshire terriers to therapy, huh? Give me one decent reason.

— Hank Lawson (Mark Feuerstein), Royal Pains, Season 1: Pilot

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We try to deal with problems that if left unattended might fester and swell and burst into some infected, pussy blister and ooze into the bloodstream of our community and make us sick.

— Fred Willard, Fernwood 2 Night S01e02 Leisure Suits Cause Cancer

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I admit I done made some mistakes. And I have some imperfect ways.

— R. Kelly, [EXCLUSIVE] R. Kelly - I Admit It (19min)

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Open the closet and check the skeletons.
Don't allow important matters to haunt you in the background— it will make you anxious or guilty or both.
Pending issues should be solved today.

— Paulo Coelho, via twitter.com

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I’m not saying a conversation between one police officer and one gay guy will solve all the problems, but maybe it can open up eyes to something more.

— Karamo Brown, Queer Eye, Season 1: Dega Don't

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If we do our job right, we never need to go to court. Look, the reason we're not a law firm? We don't have to play within the rules of the law. We're fixers, crisis managers. We make the problems of our clients go away. Big or small. It's not about solving some crime. It's not about justice. It's about our client.

— Harrison Wright (Columbus Short), Scandal, Season 1: Sweet Baby

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Well, frankly, I pity the lot of you. You look out there and see a problem, I look out there and see an opportunity. I'm gonna slide on that slippery floor all the way from Holt's office to the elevator.

— Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg), Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Season 4: Skyfire Cycle

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Sometimes it's easier to make intimate issues about something bigger than yourself.

— Linda Martin (Rachael Harris), Lucifer, Season 1: , Stay. Good Devil.

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J.D.: Look, Elliot, I've got my own problems. I don't have time to deal with your little sex pickle.

Dr. Kelso: Really? She spent two years dealing with yours.

— Bob Kelso (Ken Jenkins), Scrubs, Season 4: My Drive-By

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I wish I could say it worked both ways, but I seldom let anyone care for me in return.

— Mackenzie Moore, I’m Happy to Fix Your Problems, Just Don’t Ask Me About Mine

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I got one less problem without ya.

— Ariana Grande and Iggy Azalea, Problem (My Everything (Deluxe)

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Get a good night's sleep. That usually fixes it.

— Haruki Murakami, After the Quake: Stories

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True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving.

— Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

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You miss this? Lists of made-up problems. No woman was ever rich enough, young enough, pretty enough, good enough.

— Commander Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes)

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People’s fantasies are what give them problems.

— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)

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Hate solves no problems. It only creates them.

— Frank Sinatra, Playboy Interview: Frank Sinatra

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Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

— Unknown, 30 Funny Short Jokes That Are Guaranteed To Make You Smile

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I don’t know what your problem is, but I’m guessing it’s hard to pronounce.

— Unknown, 50 Hilarious Comebacks That Will Shut Everyone Up (And Make You Look Like A Genius)

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I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game."

— Willie Mays, via www.successories.com

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Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent.

— Stokely Carmichael, via www.successories.com

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There are two kinds of idiots.
Those who don't take action because they have received a threat,
and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

— Paulo Coelho, via twitter.com

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She must have been dealing with a lot of issues that made her take out her anger on me. It doesn’t make it right but it makes it slightly understandable.

— Shane Dawson, I Hate Myselfie: A Collection of Essays by Shane Dawson

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your storms
deserve your
love, too.

— Joel L. Daniels, via twitter.com

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Your life problems can offer you meaning. Your mess can become your message. Your test can become your testimony.

— Jordan Bach, via Twitter

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I would like to remind the black ministry, and indeed all black people, that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people’s problems on earth.

— Steve Biko, I Write What I Like: Selected Writings

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People think there's a solution... If everything is distributed in the proper quarters, put into the right pigeonholes, everything will be fine. But I'm not so sure. … Nothing, absolutely nothing at all has emerged out of all these ideas of faith and scepticism, all these convulsions, these puffings and blowings. For many of my fellow human beings on the other hand, I'm aware that these problems still exist — and exist as a terrible reality. I hope this generation will be the last to live under the scourge of religious anxiety.

— Ingmar Bergman, Jonas Sima interview

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A love that’s meant to be doesn’t mean it’s perfect. It just finds a way to overcome situations that would end a love that’s not.

— William Chapman, WILLIAM CHAPMAN WRITINGS

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I have tasted deadlier poisons and survived, what makes you think I do not possess an antidote to your brand of poison too?

— Nikita Gill, A Quote by Nikita Gil

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

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Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks, 1914-1916

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

— Aristotle Onassis, A quote by Aristotle Onassis

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Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke ‘em down to nothing.

— Tom Waits, A quote by Tom Waits

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Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

— Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion: A Novel

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Perhaps it does us good…to have a fall every now and then. As long as we don’t break.

— J.M. Coetzee, Boyhood: Traditional Characters

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However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

— Stanley Kubrick, The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick

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At times it is not easy for me to take up living again.

— Vincent Van Gogh, Van Gogh In Arles

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Problems, weaknesses, setbacks, regrets and mistakes teach you if you’re willing to learn, or they punish you if you’re not.

— Ralph Marston, Ralph Marston on Twitter

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There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

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Hiding your hurt only intensifies it. Problems grow in the dark and only become bigger and bigger, but when exposed to the light of truth, they shrink. You are only as sick as your secrets. So take off your mask, stop pretending you’re perfect and walk into freedom.

— Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.

— Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.

— Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

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I hope that I’m always struggling, really. You develop when you’re struggling. When you’re struggling, you get stronger.

— Andrew Garfield, Andrew Garfield On His Career Aspirations: 'I Hope I Never Blow Up'

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The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, On Life After Death

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But these are small troubles, people will say. Yes, but they are drops which wear hollows in the rock.

— Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

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People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are.

— Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

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The deeper the wound, the more private the pain.

— Isabel Allende, Paula

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They told me life is tough. I told them I was tougher.

— Natasha Redd, A Quote by Natasha Redd

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How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.

— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

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I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.

— Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

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Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?

— Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth Part 1 of 3

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Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world,
But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil;
And though calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head,
Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments

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Sometimes the eye of a hurricane is the safest place to be.

— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

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You couldn’t hide from bad things and pretend they didn’t exist–that left you with a dream world, and dream worlds eventually crumbled. You had to face the truth. And then decide what you wanted.

— Sarah Cross, Kill Me Softly

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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

— Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness

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Life isn’t meant to exist in a narrow color spectrum of perpetual happiness. That’s a movie. It’s not reality. Experience all your vivid, fiery, watery emotions. Give yourself permission to be full bodied. You’re peeling. Revealing. It’s a messy, magnificent process.

— Kris Carr, Why I Write & So Should You | Kris Carr

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Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.

— Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

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My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more than I can handle. And it’s not just mine. Every single person down there is ignoring your pain because they’re too busy with their own. The beautiful ones. The popular ones. The guys that pick on you. Everyone. If you could hear what they were feeling. The loneliness. The confusion. It looks quiet down there. It’s not. It’s deafening.

— Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer S3E18

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I’m still kind of a mess. But I think we all are. No one’s got it all together. I don’t think you ever do get it totally together. Probably if you did manage to do it you’d spontaneously combust.

— Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

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People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster

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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

— Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through The Fire

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I’ve learned a huge amount because I’ve been tested and, more importantly, I’ve been trusted.

— pete-townshend, Won't get fooled again...

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I know it’s not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you’re not the only one with troubles.

— Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

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This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don’t get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can’t do anything, don’t get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it’s ready to come undone. You have to figure it’s going to be a long process and that you’ll work on things slowly, one at a time.

— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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It’s not how we fall. It’s how we get back up again.

— Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

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Don’t be jealous of anyone. I guarantee you, if everyone walked into a room, and dumped their problems onto the floor, when they saw what everyone else’s problems were, they’d be scrambling to get their own problems back before someone else got to them first.

— Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup

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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

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I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind in my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.

— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

— Epictetus, A quote by Epictetus

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There are all these moments you don’t think you will survive. And then you survive.

— David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

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I’m still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can’t complain.

— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

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You are never stronger…than when you land on the other side of despair.

— Zadie Smith, White Teeth: A Novel

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Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn’t any.

— Edith Wharton,, The House of Mirth

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It’s the storm – not you – that’s bound to blow away.

— Marsha Norman, The Secret Garden

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It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

— Rose Macaulay, Words of Wisdom (Volume 58): 1001 Quotes & Quotations

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There’s not a lot that a good poop can’t solve.

— Matthew Santoro, via twitter.com

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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

— Maya Angelou, via twitter.com

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No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

— Sholom Aleichem, A quote by Sholem Aleichem

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It is okay to be at a place of struggle. Struggle is just another word for growth. Even the most evolved beings find themselves in a place of struggle now and then. In fact, struggle is a sure sign to them that they are expanding; it is their indication of real and important progress. The only one who doesn’t struggle is the one who doesn’t grow. So if you are struggling right now, see it as a terrific sign — and celebrate your struggle.

— Neale Donald Walsch, A quote by Neale Donald Walsch

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Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

— Christopher Markus, A quote by Christopher Markus

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

— Francis Bacon, Francis Bacon: Quotes & Facts

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Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

— Sergey Brin, Enlightenment man

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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

— Franz Kafka, Letters to friends, family, and editors

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Your strength is greater than your struggles.

— Mrs Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

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My issues have issues.

— Josh Peck, via twitter.com

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Sometimes our problems aren’t so easy to set aside. Sometimes they cling on to us, filling us up until we can’t see anything else.

— Sarah A Denzil, Saving April

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Majority of people who are easily stressed are the one's who think too much about the problems instead of solutions. Always focus on solutions.

— Subodh Gupta, Stress Management a Holistic Approach

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Almost always we are all experiencing the same problems as everyone else and pretending we don’t so that every one of us thinks we are alone.

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

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Finding someone to love you will not fix all (or sometimes, any) of your problems. It just means you’ll have someone to hold you and help you when things get really tough.

— Kim Quindlen, 25 Reminders That All Single 20-Somethings Need To Hear Right Now

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Life's big. If you can't fix it, give it a spin.

— Mark Z. Danielewski, Only Revolutions: A Novel

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Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)

— Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

— Alan W Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

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Don’t talk about how strong you are. Just be strong. Endure hardships, solve problems, press on. Don’t be the dog that barks, be the dog that bites.

— Tyler Jacobson, 17 Ways To Be The Strong Woman He’s Been Looking For

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What are a few things you thought you would never get over while you were going through them? Why did they seem so insurmountable? How did you?

— Brianna Wiest, 16 Questions That Will Show You Who You Are (And What You’re Meant To Do)

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Where am I making my life more complicated or difficult than it has to be?

— Barrie Davenport, Deep Questions To Ask

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