“I wanted to thank you,” I said.She wrinkled her nose and squinted like I’d said something funny. “Thank me for what?” she said.”You give me strength I didn’t know I had,”; I said. “You make me better.”

“If you hate one of your own and you don’t see any problem. Just know that you are the problem.”

“Every problem has a gift for you in its hands” (Richard Bach). And if not every problem, then just about every one. Even spectacular sunsets are not possible without cloudy skies. Troubles bring a gift for those who choose to look. And since I can’t avoid my problems, why waste them? I should look for the gift. My life will be far, far richer for finding it.”

“Faith doesn’t get you around problems in life and relationships, it gets you through it.”

“This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and grief;its a shame that not one of our problemswas ever solved.We departwith a thousand regretsin our hearts.”

“It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.”

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

“Never cry because you have mountains of problem in your hands to solve. Always smile because each problems will someday resolve.”

“Shovels serve two purposes. One is to dig holes and the other is to fill them. And I must say that my life evidences my expertise with the first, but apparently I can’t figure out the second.”

“Happiness comes from solving problems. The key word here is ‘solving’. If you’re avoiding your problems or feel like you don’t have any problems, then you’re going to make yourself miserable. If you feel like you have problems that you can’t solve, you will likewise make yourself miserable. The secret sauce is in the solving of the problems, not in not having problems in the first place.”

“There’s the old saying about ‘killing two birds with one stone’. However, most of us aren’t paying enough attention to know what the birds are, and even if we did we wouldn’t know where to find the stones. So maybe we should start looking for both.”

“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and the number of problems we have.”

“Doing something we do not find difficult or challenging rarely grows us.”

“Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.”

“His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love for your lust! His peace for your problems! His joy for your sorrow! His plenty for your poverty!”