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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner the whole world opens up to you.

The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else to do something kind and good.

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us snow is exhilarating there is no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.

One of man's finest qualities is described by the simple word "guts"-the ability to take it. If you have the discipline to stand fast when your body wants to run if you can control your temper and remain cheerful in the face of monotony or disappointments you have "guts" in the soldiering sense.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

Dullness is a misdemeanor.

Boredom like necessity is very often the mother of invention.

We look wishfully to emergencies to eventful revolutionary times ... and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads.

The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity self-sufficiency and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.

Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

If your daily life seems poor do not blame it blame yourself tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Getting bored is not allowed.

Man lives by habits indeed but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.