the good life

Co-authors Rosamund and Benjamin Zander, on finding the right frame:

“Every problem, every dilemma, every dead end we find ourselves facing in life, only appears unsolvable inside a particular frame or point of view. Enlarge the box, or create another frame around the data, and problems vanish, while new opportunities appear.”

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

“My argument with so much of psychoanalysis, is the preconception that suffering is a mistake, or a sign of weakness, or a sign even of illness, when in fact, possibly the greatest truths we know have come out of people's suffering; that the problem is not to undo suffering or to wipe it off the face of the earth but to make it inform our lives,

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" A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play , his labour and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation." — L. P. Jacks