Trouble quotes
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"Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself."
"All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free."
"All troubles come to an end when the ego dies"
"It has turned out to be an annus horribilis."
"Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result."
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"It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble."
"Comedy is a man in trouble. And without it, there's no humor."
"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard."
"Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there."
"Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance."
"Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness."
"There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'"
"It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike."
"Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus."
"They smell of all the baths they didnt take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here."
"Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide, The scripture assures us, The Lord will provide."
"In trouble waters I had to learn how to float"
"...nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should."
"This world is in deep trouble, from top to bottom. But it can be swiftly healed by the balm of love."
"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
"Comfort the troubled, and trouble the comfortable."
"I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble."
"Every writer I know has trouble writing."
"It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best."
"Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction."
