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• Feel that the energy of your willpower can easily deflect tension-causing feelings and frustrations that are directed towards you from the outside world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Feelings, Energy, World

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• Your mind is turbulent because you're filled with desires, frustrations. You want too many things. You are afraid of too many things. It is necessary to overcome both attraction and repulsion to still the mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Desire, Overcoming

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• For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

  Paul the Apostle

  Children, Pain, Choices

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• Winning isn't everything to me, but it's a close second. Losing isn't something that I can just brush off and fake a smile to hide my frustration. It's that will and determination that I hope will get me where I want to go.

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

  Determination, Winning, Fake

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• Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't use the gifts that we've been given; we pay for it with our emotional and physical well-being. When we don't use our talents to cultivate meaningful work, we struggle. We feel disconnected and weighted down by feelings of emptiness, frustration, resentment, shame, disappointment, fear, and even grief.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Meaningful, Disappointment

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write.

  Suzanne Collins

  Writing, Rats, Gregor The Overlander

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.133, Scholastic Inc.

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• I had a lot of frustrations about my career. A lot of, you know, times where I felt I should've been considered for a part that I wasn't considered for.

  Lauren Bacall

  "In Acting And In Life, Lauren Bacall 'Loved The Idea Of Adventure'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. August 15, 2014.

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• Sometimes I think it is ... frustration with life as it is lived day to day that compels me to write such long letters to people who seldom reply in kind, if indeed they reply at all. Somehow by compressing and editing the events of my life, I infuse them with a dramatic intensity totally lacking at the time, but oddly enough I find that years later what I remember is not the event as I lived it but as I described it in a letter.

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

  Writing, Thinking, Editing

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.168, Penguin

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• The people who ultimately reach their goals are those who don't give up. Instead of wallowing in self-pity or frustration - or throwing in the towel altogether - they explore what didn't work and course-correct.

  Lauren Mackler

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• Violence among all people is based on dissatisfaction, frustration and crushed ambition and people who don't know who to strike at and who to blame, and not willing to blame themselves.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Ambition, People, Violence

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and ran together again, leaving a watery film over his ruined face.

  Albert Camus

  Wrinkles, Together Again, Leaving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.18, Vintage

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• Boredom is a mask frustration wears.

  Neal Stephenson

  Boredom, Mask

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• I still had the same frustration with trying to play [Edward Cullen], the entire way through, right up until the last shot. It's a strange part because, on the one hand, a lot of the audience projects their idea of Edward[Cullen] onto him. It doesn't matter what he is. They want him to be a certain way. And then, my instincts were to try and play it and to try to find the fallibility in him and the weaknesses.

  Robert Pattinson

  Play, Ideas, Hands

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?" "Every one of them," Yossarian told him. "Every one of whom?" "Every one of whom do you think?" "I haven't any idea." "Then how do you know they aren't?" "Because..." Clevinger sputtered, and turned speechless with frustration. Clevinger really thought he was right, but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn't know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn't funny at all.

  Joseph Heller

  Thinking, Ideas, Air

  "Catch-22". Book by Joseph Heller, ch. 2, p. 24, 1961.

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• As a kid who failed out of high school as a freshman, I know firsthand and personally that sense of hopelessness and just being - drifting in the wrong direction, having really no hope. And being able to harness that frustration was incredibly valuable in my life. That's one of the reasons I focus so consistently on the foundation of education, because it helps to eviscerate those things that - unemployment, high jobless rates, poverty.

  Tim Scott

  School, Kids, Focus

  "Should government play a role in addressing root causes of Baltimore’s upheaval?". "PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. April 28, 2015.

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• It is the Father's life, and the Father's life alone, that ever lives the Christian life. It is the Father's life, and Father's life alone, which will live the Christian life in you. Embrace a formula or a list in order to "live the Christian life," and you are doomed to frustration.

  Gene Edwards

  Christian, Father, Order

  Gene Edwards (1991). “The secret to the Christian life: have we overlooked the main point?”, Christian Books Pub House

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• White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and he must release them. It is not a threat but a fact of history that if an oppressed people's pent-up emotions are not nonviolently released, they will be violently released.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, People, Facts

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an effort to understand why he must do this. For if his frustration and despair are allowed to continue piling up, millions of Negroes will seek solace and security in black-nationalist ideologies. And this, inevitably, would lead to a frightening racial nightmare.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Cities, Effort, Black

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• One of the frustrations of someone like Thomas Cromwell is that, before they step into the light of history, and become extremely well documented, they are not known. A king might be well documented but not everyone.

  Hilary Mantel

  Kings, Light, Might

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• I think we realized the depth of frustration through the current political process. So we said, "OK, we know there's a serious problem here, we know we need to work on it," and now it's "Oh, we need to work on it a lot faster."

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Political, Serious

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't have any frustrations. It sounds a little silly, but life is too short for me. I don't worry about all the things that happen, I just think about what to do with them. I work a lot with blind people in my spare time and I count my blessings every day.

  Paul Polman

  Silly, Life Is Too Short, Blessing

  "Unilever chief Paul Polman wants to orient company for the long term". Interview with Lillian Cunningham, www.smh.com.au. May 25, 2015.

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• The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy.

  Germaine Greer

  Pain, Generosity, Hatred

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.57, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.

  Elizabeth Bear

  Able, Lifetime, Poet

  Elizabeth Bear (2006). “The Chains That You Refuse”, Nightshade Book

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• I have experienced the intensity of patriotism as a submarine officer, the ambitions of a competitive businessman, and the intensity of political debate. I have been sorely tempted to launch a military attack on foreigners, and have felt the frustration of having to negotiate with allies or even former enemies to reach a consensus instead of taking more decisive unilateral action.

  Jimmy Carter

  Military, Ambition, Political

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.429, Simon and Schuster

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• Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors -- is almost as old as recorded history. It has always been a great temptation, for men of action no less than for men of thought, to find a substitute for action in the hope that the realm of human affairs may escape the haphazardness and moral irresponsibility inherent in a plurality of agents.

  Hannah Arendt

  Men, Temptation, Agents

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