We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

The mind is a wonderful problem-solving machine without which there exists not even a single problem.

A problem is a shadow of the illusion of a self.

Most people use their minds to solve problems way less often than they use their minds to create problems.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

Like a problem, time is nothing but a shadow of thought.

Every problem is a teacher from the University of Life.

The size of your problem is in your mind.

Our friends are often secretly made happy, or less unhappy, by their finding out about our problems, because that reminds them that they are not the only ones who have problems; that some people’s problems are way bigger than theirs; or that some people, unlike them, have real problems.