Grievance Quotes

• The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Past, New Earth

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• The grievance industry always seeks to blame other people while never finding a solution. That's my problem with it, when solutions are there to be had.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Blame, Problem

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps this is why jokes are so important. On one hand they tell us about where the problems and grievances are, and, at the same time, they provide the means of enduring these grievances by laughing at the problems.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Hands, Games

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• Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Psychics, People, Minorities

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.

  Andre Maurois

  Life, Motivational, Real

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• A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

  Eric Hoffer

  Literature, Negotiation, Poignant

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We are not perfect. The people around us are not perfect. People do things that annoy, disappoint, and anger. In this mortal life it will always be that way. Nevertheless, we must let go of our grievances. Part of the purpose of mortality is to learn how to let go of such things. That is the Lord’s way. Remember, heaven is filled with those who have this in common: They are forgiven. And they forgive.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Letting Go, People, Perfect

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• To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

  Alan Coren

  Life, Purpose, Purpose Of Life

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• We are the ones who suffer when we hold on to past grievances.

  Louise Hay

  Past, Suffering

  Louise L. Hay (2009). “Life!: Reflections on Your Journey”, p.8, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

  Booker T. Washington

  Opportunity

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• You can't hold on to a grievance and be happy. Time to make a choice!

  Robert Holden

  Happy Times, Choices

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• Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

  Robert Frost

  Grief, Poetry, Political

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Making Money, Thrive

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• One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with the time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.

  Thomas Sowell

  Dream, Real, War

  Thomas Sowell (2002). “Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• No person with a grievance can be also a person with an attractive personality!

  Napoleon Hill

  Personality, Attractive, Persons

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “The Law of Success: The 16 Secrets for Achieving Wealth & Prosperity”, p.375, Courier Corporation

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• History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

  A. N. Wilson

  History, Doe, Landmines

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• Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

  Don DeLillo

  Past, Nostalgia, Rage

  Don DeLillo (1999). “White Noise”, p.210, Penguin

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• The Statist has an insatiable appetite for control. His sights are set on his next meal even before he has fully digested his last. He is constantly agitating for government action. And in furtherance of that purpose, the Statist speaks in the tongue of the demagogue, concocting one pretext and grievance after another to manipulate public perceptions and build popular momentum for the divestiture of liberty and property from its rightful possessors.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Sight, Perception

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• What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or three crosses as to forget an hundred blessing.

  Richard Sibbes

  Gratitude, Blessing, Thinking

  Richard Sibbes (2001). “Works of Richard Sibbes”, Banner of Truth

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• Man is equal to man. There should not be exploitation. One should help the other. No one should harm anybody. Generally there should be no room for grievance or complaint from anybody. Everyone should live and let others live, with a national spirit.

  Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

  Men, Rooms, Spirit

  Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 49, 2005.

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• The individual who cultivates grievances, and who is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to the education of time and of development.... One does not argue or contend with the foul miasma that settles over stagnant water; one leaves it and climbs to a higher region, where the air is pure and the sunshine fair.

  Lilian Whiting

  Education, Time, Sunshine

  Lilian Whiting (1896). “The World Beautiful”

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• A rebellion is something that is developing as an explosion coming out of the righteous grievances of a community of people.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  People, Community, Rebellion

  "VIDEO: Legendary Detroit Activist Grace Lee Boggs Turns 100; Watch Never-Before-Aired Interview". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. June 27, 2015.

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• Terrorism is carried out purposefully, in a cold-blooded, calculated fashion. The declared goals of the terrorist may change from place to place. He supposedly fights to remedy wrongs -- social, religious, national, racial. But for all these problems his only solution is the demolition of the whole structure of society. No partial solution, not even the total redressing of the grievance he complains of, will satisfy him -- until our social system is destroyed or delivered into his hands.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Fashion, Religious, Fighting

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• You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity.

  James Cook

  Past, Charity, Today

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• The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.

  Laozi

  Past, Baggage, Emotion

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