Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent, while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent.

Trouble is synonymous with being a metabolizing entity.

That's where all the trouble in life comes from. Thinking.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...

Now, as the weeks passed, there was a future, there was a trouble that would not go away.

Trouble trouble and it will trouble you!

Whatever your problems are, the concept is the same: solve problems; be happy. Unfortunately,
for many people, life doesn’t feel that simple. That’s because they fuck things up in at least one of two
ways:
1. Denial. Some people deny that their problems exist in the first place. And because they deny
reality, they must constantly delude or distract themselves from reality. This may make them feel
good in the short term, but it leads to a life of insecurity, neuroticism, and emotional repression.
2. Victim Mentality. Some choose to believe that there is nothing they can do to solve their
problems, even when they in fact could. Victims seek to blame others for their problems or blame
outside circumstances. This may make them feel better in the short term, but it leads to a life of
anger, helplessness, and despair.

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

The main trouble, the root of the future evil, was loss of faith in the value of one’s own opinion. People imagined that the time when they followed the urgings of their moral sense was gone, that now they had to sing to the general tune and live by foreign notions imposed on everyone.

when we start to deeply believe in an illusion, it becomes a delusion.

Being in trouble can have a funny effect on the mind. I don't know if I can explain this. You go through some days and you seem to be hearing people and you seem to be talking to them and you seem to be doing your work, or, at least, your work gets done; but you haven't seen or heard a soul and if someone asked you what you have done that day you'd have to think awhile before you could answer. But at the same time, and even on the self-same day — and this is what is hard to explain — you see people like you never saw them before.

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Make a bad beginning and you’ll contend with troubles ever after.

You may need to let go of that deluded belief that if you worry about something enough, it will resolve itself.