I prefer to channel my problems and inner demons through a character. Another persona. That protects me and my family. I can get my frustrations out that way.
The art of writing is the art of doing what you think you're doing. This is not as simple as it sounds. It implies a very difficult undertaking: the necessity to think. And it implies the requirement to think out three separate, very hard problems: What is it you want to say? How are you going to say it? Have you really said it?
In the field of medicine, if you're sick you need a doctor. A doctor has already studied how to deal with your ailments, and human beings are imperfect. There any many ailments of the psyche and the soul that need to be treated, and the serious murshid, or spiritual master, is also really a doctor of the soul: a person who can heal the wounds of the soul in the same way as a medical doctor takes care of our physical problems.
Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what's been on your mind so you can think about what you've been thinking about.
80% of people's problems are about how they feel about themselves.
If everyone sincerely practices the path of compassion and wisdom, all their problems will be solved. I guarantee this.
One of my problems is that I'm very honest and direct. You pay a price for that.
Nigeria has its problems, nobody denies that, but there is a surge of spiritual, I would say, Christian dynamics that are awesome.
I think there's over-telling sometimes, in fiction. For instance, I'm a big fan of horror movies, but I could always lose the last third of them. There's the brilliant exciting scary thing that's going on, and then they have to show you the monster, and the monster turns out to be a giant spider from space and then you push it over and it's dead. It becomes mortal and it has human needs and it always sort of feels like a shame. Maybe because of all the cop shows and such, we're a generation that needs to have problems solved for us in fiction.
Disease is a non-partisan problems that requires a non-partisan solution.
It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.
The solution to our water problems is more rain.
My parents love each other. They work through their problems.
When we have throat problems, it usually means we do not feel we have the right to do these things. We feel inadequate to stand up for ourselves.
Fed and electoral college could use some tinkering, but they are not the source of the problems.
Solve all your problems through meditation.
The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.
After the '30s, we said, "no more Munichs. " And it got us in a lot of problems. Then we said, "No more Vietnams. " Now if we say, "No more Iraqs," the next one won't be an Iraq. It will be something different. You can't learn lessons.
Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.
For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.