Quotes on frustration

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

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Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

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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.

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No matter how discouraged we get, God has not asked us to do the impossible

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Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.

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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.

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Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar in the freedom of desirelessness.Let go. Let Be. See through everything and be free, complete, luminous, at home -- at ease.

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Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail.

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The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

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Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

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Silence is the source of healing. When we bring things from within ourselves out into the light of awareness, a healing process happens. In the silence, we can let go of all anger, sadness, fear, loneliness and frustration.

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I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

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