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• Ageing is a privilege not a predicament.

  Martin Firrell

  Privilege, Ageing

  Article by Caitlin Moran, The Times, June 18, 2007.

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• We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Angel, Thinking, Wings

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• When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.

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• Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.

  Pema Chodron

  Butterfly, Ego, Cocoons

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• When things go wrong in our life and we encounter difficult situations, we tend to regard the situation itself as our problem, but in reality whatever problems we experience come from the side of the mind. If we were to respond to difficult situations with a positive or peaceful mind they would not be problems for us; indeed, we may even come to regard them as challenges or opportunities for growth and development. Problems arise only if we respond to difficulties with a negative state of mind. Therefore, if we want to be free from problems, we must transform our mind.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Positive, Buddhist, Attitude

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.5, Tharpa Publications US

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• You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

  Robin Williams

  Life, Philosophy, Memorable

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• The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.

  Paracelsus

  Dream, Angel, Promise

  Paracelsus (1951). “Paracelsus: Selected Writings”

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• That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Ties, Matter, Fixing

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• There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers.

  Shigeru Yoshida

  Japan, Pay, Shifting

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• It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even knowing it—we cover it over to protect ourselves from insecurity. Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.

  Pema Chodron

  Butterfly, Knowing, Laughing

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.

  Clarence Budington Kelland

  Fathers Day, Gratitude, Jobs

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• Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

  Christopher Fry

  Men, Prose And Poetry, Language

  Christopher Fry (1997). “The Early Days”

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• When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we're challenged to alter ourselves

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Capable

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• In the Middle East, bread is so essential to everyday life that word for it in Egyptian Arabic is aish, which means life. It's always been the staple grain. But the predicament is that the Fertile Crescent, where wheat cultivation began, has now become the part of the world most dependent on imported wheat.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Mean, Everyday, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed. For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement. When we are no longer able to change a situation-just think of an incurable disease such as inoperable cancer-we are challenged to change ourselves.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Cancer, Fate, Thinking

  Viktor E. Frankl (2017). “Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition”, p.111, Beacon Press

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• Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Strong, Famous Inspirational, Fire

  Viktor E. Frankl (2000). “Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning”, Basic Books

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• When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.

  Isabel Allende

  Opportunity, Years, Scarcity

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• When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

  RuPaul

  Change, Naps, Tough Times

  RuPaul (2010). “Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus offered no immunity, no way out of the unfairness, but rather a way through it to the other side.

  Philip Yancey

  God, Christian, Hope

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• Our present predicament comes from the fact that running the economy on blood is no longer fashionable. We can't end this depression with another war.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Running, War

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• The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.

  George Washington

  Sleep, Army, Reflection

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1776). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.243

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• In the agreement to rescue Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism, and to preserve the spiritual and temporal supremacy which the popes [had] 'usurped' during the Middle Ages, Rome now 'sold' the [Roman Catholic] Church to the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Jesuits]; in essence the popes surrendered themselves into their hands.

  John Daniel

  Spiritual, Jesus, Agreement

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• The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the challenge. More often than not, she will lose her virginity to some filthy lowlife in what proves to be the first step in an irrevocable decline.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Beautiful, Girl, Cynical

  Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.61, Vintage

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• A problem is something you can do something about. If you can't do something about it, then it's not a problem, it's a predicament. That means it's something that must be coped with, endured.

  Abraham Kaplan

  Mean, Problem, Can Do Something

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• I feel with loving compassion the problems of others without getting caught up emotionally in their predicaments that are offering them messages they need for their growth.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Compassion, Offering, Growth

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