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That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable.
Sep 30, 2025
Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.
Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.
People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm finding as I get older that I don't mind, though. It's the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don't see coming.
People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfullfilled potential.
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams.
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and irritability; work with the body, fatigue - and peace of mind.
Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration. Unfortunately, some people don't get to the other side... They allow frustration to keep them from taking the necessary actions that would support them in achieving their desire. You get through this roadblock by plowing through frustration, taking each setback as feedback you can learn from, and pushing ahead.
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
Success is buried on the other side of rejection.
All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.
A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.
Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.
Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you.
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.
Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.
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