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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 read more
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you read more
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.
It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a read more
It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have read more
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.
No matter how discouraged we get, God has not asked us to do the impossible
No matter how discouraged we get, God has not asked us to do the impossible
Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.
Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital read more
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.
I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We read more
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.
