All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were read more

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impossible to fail.

I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells read more

I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells socks on the internet.

Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.

Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and read more

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.