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• The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Consciousness, Enough, Surface

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.79, Routledge

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• The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Government, Laughing, Movement

  Olaf Stapledon (2013). “Darkness and the Light”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform with the league's new dress code, .. Iverson and other NBA players have suggested that they will not abide by the league's dress code, and Bodog.com will offer to reimburse any fines levied, and match the payment with a donation to each player's charity of choice.

  Calvin Ayre

  Basketball, Player, Nba

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• I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Ignorant, Culture, Absolute Certainty

  "Interview: Anthony Bourdain Is Ready To 'Get Jiro' With His New Food Focused Graphic Novel". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 26, 2012.

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• Like most authors, I'm a raging egomaniac. I know that about myself. And I know that, if I had internet access, I would waste countless hours looking up things about myself, writing fake posts about how great I am and arguing with people who don't like my work. It saves me a lot of time and frustration to just stay out of the loop.

  Bentley Little

  Writing, Internet Access, People

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• There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love...Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self-love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Love, Hate, Self

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• The deepest healing is the healing of the deepest wound. The deepest wound is the frustration of the deepest need. The deepest need is the need for meaning, purpose, and hope.

  Peter Kreeft

  Healing, Needs, Purpose

  Peter Kreeft (2005). “The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind The Lord of the Rings”, p.17, Ignatius Press

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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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• The smell of frustration cannot compete with the stench of non-creation

  Daniel Lee

  Smell, Creation

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• I'm not one of these people who is sour about academia. I'm very lucky not to be in academia, but I am an absolute parasite. While I was writing my book on comparative philosophy I was drawing on some fantastic scholars - university based people. The academy is absolutely necessary, but there should also be a role for those bringing it together. It's such a frustration sometimes.

  Julian Baggini

  Philosophy, Book, Writing

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The world is complex, and so too must be the activities that we perform. But that doesn't mean that we must live in continual frustration. No. The whole point of human-centered design is to tame complexity, to turn what would appear to be a complicated tool into one that fits the task, that is understandable, usable, enjoyable.

  Donald A. Norman

  Mean, Design, Tasks

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• A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is no human solution. Mystery's offspring is not frustration but awe, and that sense of awe grows in tandem with knowledge.

  Eric Weiner

  Waiting, Mystery, Tandem

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• Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time.

  Patti Smith

  Long, Sorrow, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Mother, Mean, People

  Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

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• Men aren't allowed to have self-esteem, because we're already supposed to have all the power.... But most men earn less than they want, barely the minimum wage. They're drones. They do stuff they don't want to do to support their families, and they're not sure why they do it. They don't know what they're doing half the time, and any time we stick up for ourselves, we're pigs because we don't know how to articulate our frustrations and joys.

  Tim Allen

  Self Esteem, Men, Pigs

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• I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.

  Rick Scott

  Jobs, Small Business, Taxes

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• Try it, folks, try it. Try it for a week without watching cable news. Now, if you're a news consumer and if you are quasi-addicted, then you're gonna have to find other ways of informing yourself, and you can do that. You can inform yourself of the same things you'll see on cable TV. What you will miss is all the incendiary opining on both sides. You'll miss the anger. You'll miss the constant lack of resolution to anything. And most of all you'll miss the frustration.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Missing, Trying, Week

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There is no "but" in it. The way to be an administration Senator is to vote with the Administration.

  William Howard Taft

  Way, Administration, Vote

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• That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable.

  Robert E. Sherwood

  Life, Stories, Disease

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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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• 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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• 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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• Take two kids in competition for their parents' love and attention. Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other; the resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other; the personal frustrations that they don't dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister, and it's not hard to understand why in families across the land, the sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.

  Adele Faber

  Brother, Children, Sibling

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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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• 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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