Frustration Quotes - Page 12

• All those emotions spanning from intense love, intense frustration, intense jealously, all those feelings are red.

  Taylor Swift

  Feelings, Red, Emotion

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• Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Beach, Sadness, Darkness

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2014

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• Distrust brings frustration and fear. So therefore, the lonely feeling automatically come. So, lonely feeling is not creation of environment, but creation of your own mental attitude.

  Dalai Lama

  Lonely, Attitude, Feelings

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• Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Depression

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• When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness.

  Jack Kornfield

  Regret, Loneliness, Space

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• People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.

  Spike Lee

  Color, People, World

  "Spike Lee Talks Obama, the End of Mookie's Brooklyn, and the Hollywood Color Line". Interview with Will Leitch, www.vulture.com. July 8, 2012.

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• People, workers, the elderly, all these people I see with sympathy and affection. These are the people who have fought the battle of life and who now and then show the hard work and the frustration ...It's all about human activity, it's truth, and we all get there.

  Duane Hanson

  Hard Work, Elderly, People

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• Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophe.

  Sumner Redstone

  Great Success, Built

  "I Am American Business". CNBC Interview, www.cnbc.com.

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• There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sprouting of the second group and transforming the first group.

  Amit Ray

  Spiritual, Compassion, Two

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.95, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.

  Norman Cousins

  Depression, Hate, Despair

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• Out of frustration, you do drugs when you can't write. On occasion that might work, but usually what happens is that once you've had on drink, you just want another drink.

  Steve Jordan

  Writing, Drug, Want

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• Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.

  Jules Feiffer

  Imagination, Tradition, Function

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• People are probably correct when they see me as the so-called Everyman. I'm attracted primarily to contemporary characters. I understand them and their frustrations.

  Jack Lemmon

  Character, People, Everyman

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• One must exploit the asynchronies that have befallen one, link them to a promising issue or domain, reframe frustrations as opportunities, and, above all, persevere.

  Howard Gardner

  Opportunity, Issues, Links

  Howard Gardner (1998). “Extraordinary Minds: Portraits Of 4 Exceptional Individuals And An Examination Of Our Own Extraordinariness”, p.135, Basic Books

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• There is no point in starting your own business unless you do it out of a sense of frustration.

  Richard Branson

  Starting, No Point, Own Business

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• In our darkest hour, in my deepest despair,
  Will you still care? Will you be there?
  In my trials and my tribulations,
  Through our doubts and frustrations,
  In my violence and my turbulence,
  Through my fear and my confessions,
  And my anguish and my pain,
  Through my joy and my sorrow,
  In the promise of another tomorrow,
  I'll never let you part,
  For you're always in my heart.

  Michael Jackson

  Pain, Heart, Joy

  "Song: 'Will You Be There'". 1993.

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• Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Men, History, Anxiety

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• Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Doe, Obsession

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• I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. We can know that reality is good just as it is, because when we argue with it, we experience tension and frustration. We don't feel natural or balanced. When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.

  Byron Katie

  Spiritual, Hurt, Simple

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• Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and depression.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Blessing, Boredom, Curse

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• Embracing conflict can be a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and the re-engergizing of ourselves and others. Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

  Billy Graham

  Heart, Irritation, Joy

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• So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.

  Ned Beauman

  Gout, Threatening, Illness

  "The Teleportation Accident". Book by Ned Beauman, July 19, 2012.

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• At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.

  Alain de Botton

  Lying, Heart, Reality

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, 2000.

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• Satanism encourages its followers to indulge in their natural desires. Only by doing so can you be a completely satisfied person with no frustrations which can be harmful to yourself and others around you. Therefore, the most simplified description of the Satanic belief is: indulgence instead of abstinence.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Indulge In, Desire, Satanic

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• Why do I dance? Dance is my medicine. It’s the scream which eases for a while the terrible frustration common to all human beings who because of race, creed, or color, are ‘invisible’. Dance is the fist with which I fight the sickening ignorance of prejudice.

  Pearl Primus

  Dance, Ignorance, Fighting

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