Frustration Quotes - Page 28

• Frustration is a bad experience. What you have to stress is the satisfaction.

  Pascal Bruckner

  Stress, Satisfaction, Bad Experiences

  Source: www.mantlethought.org

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• There is an unraveling, a great unraveling that I believe is occurring. Not without its pain, not without its frustration. Perhaps the fundamentalism we see within America right now is in response to these changes. We fear change, and so we cling to what is known.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Pain, Believe, America

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• I know that I'm very susceptible to getting caught up in storylines like, "I want him to be different. I want him to be more open. I want him to call." We have all of these storylines that kind of take over sometimes, and I think there's real grace and a peaceful heart at the center of just accepting what is, and knowing that everything's OK. The good, the bad, the ugly, the pain, the hurt, the frustration - all of that is valuable and part of this human experience, so we should lean in to all of it.

  Sara Bareilles

  Hurt, Pain, Real

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Garden, Design, Patterns

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• Nothing helps us build our perspective more than developing compassion for others. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness to put yourself in someone else's shoes, to take the focus off yourself and to imagine what it's like to be in someone else's predicament, and simultaneously, to feel love for that person. It's the recognition that other people's problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own-often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our own hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.

  Richard Carlson

  Gratitude, Pain, Real

  Richard Carlson (2011). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• It's the recognition that other people's problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own - often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.

  Richard Carlson

  Gratitude, Pain, Real

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• I think one of the aspects of photography that remains for me is I find the process still frustrating. The counter to that is that it's still very exciting. If you didn't have the frustration, you wouldn't have the excitement. If you didn't have the disappointment, you wouldn't have the magical intoxication of this process working.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Disappointment, Thinking

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• Turns out that people who try new things, go new places, learn new skills, etc. are happier. This can be tough, because novelty and challenge also bring frustration and irritation - but if you can push through that, novelty and challenge can bring enormous happiness rewards.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Irritation, Skills, People

  "Slate Discussion: The Happiness Project". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. January 15, 2009.

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• Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.

  Vikram Seth

  Character, Peculiar, Revision

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• The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower levels of satisfaction.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Suffering, Levels

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• It's such a frustration when you see in the name of religion, in the name of God, what people are doing is something we never expected. The religion has to be Spirit-oriented, but it is only power-oriented or money-oriented. In the original scriptures, or we can say in the origin of this religion was the truth. And all these religions bloom on the same play of spirituality like beautiful flowers at different times, but people have plucked it and now they are fighting with the dead flowers.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Beautiful, Wisdom

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• Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

  Philip Guston

  Art, Satisfaction, Great Things

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.54, Univ of California Press

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• When you react, you don't give your mind the time to get filled with emotions. You are devoid of anger, fear, and frustration; you are simply moving.

  Saulo Ribeiro

  Art, Moving, Giving

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• One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.

  Helen Lynd

  Pride, Bears, Purpose

  Helen Merrell Lynd (2013). “On Shame And The Search For Identity”, p.255, Routledge

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• Stay positive, joyful, and optimistic in your activism, even in the face of adversity. Understand that most people continue to consume animal products because they are unaware of the hidden cost - animal cruelty - not because they are bad or apathetic. Offer information, support, and resources in a friendly and supportive manner, as few people have begun their journey toward a compassionate lifestyle by being shamed or ridiculed. Turn anger and frustration into motivation to be as effective as possible.

  Nathan Runkle

  Motivation, Optimistic, Adversity

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• Somewhere along the journey of remembering who we really are, we may find ourselves in a very uncomfortable space, a void in which we realize that we haven't totally let go of our old beliefs, and on the other hand we have yet to fully plug into the new truths we have discovered. This awkward "place of mind" can bring on an internal crisis of uncertainty, instability, confusion, frustration, and a most unspeakable despair as the "dark night" sets in and makes its presence felt.

  Nicholas Schmidt

  Letting Go, Dark, Night

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• Money power cannot be separated from democratic power without miscarriage and ensuing frustration - political and economic. Democracy implies the sovereignty of man; and, since man cannot be sovereign without the money power, there can not be democracy under the political money system.

  E.C. Riegel

  Miscarriage, Power, Men

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• Understanding your dog and knowing how to control him, develop his potentials, and resolve behavior problems, emotional conflicts and frustrations are no less essential than love and respect.

  Michael Fox

  Dog, Emotional, Knowing

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• Frustration is the by-product of attempting to fulfill responsibilities God does not intend for us to carry. Freedom, joy, and fruitfulness come from seeking to determine God’s priorities for each season of life, and then setting out to fulfill those priorities, in the power of His Spirit, realizing that He has provided the necessary time and abilities to do everything that He has called us to do.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Responsibility, Joy, Priorities

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2007). “Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free”, p.120, Moody Publishers

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• The single largest frustration in the massage field is the waste of resources and training resulting from high attrition among those who start practicing massage therapy. While some affected individuals may have made an ill-suited vocational choice and others underestimated the profession's physical demands, most appear to stumble in assembling the self-confidence and persistent salesmanship necessary to develop a professional practice

  Bob Benson

  Self Confidence, Practice, Choices

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• Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Trying, Convinced

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Conflicts are fueled by the tendency of the powerful to exploit the power and the anger and frustration of the powerless, which turns into violence. International Solidarity Movement activists are attempting to confront the exploitation of power and to bring back hope to the powerless.

  Ghassan Andoni

  Powerful, Movement, Violence

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• The moment love becomes a relationship, it becomes a bondage, because there are expectations and there are demands and there are frustrations, and an effort from both sides to dominate. It becomes a struggle for power.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Struggle, Love Is

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• Two persons can be very loving together. The more loving they are, the less is the possibility of any relationship. The more loving they are, the more freedom exists between them. The more loving they are, the less is the possibility of any demand, any domination, any expectation. And naturally, there is no question of any frustration

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Two, Expectations

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• It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Gratitude, Sadness, Envy

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