#frustration

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. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#frustration #greater #lack #less #many

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#behaving #beings #belief #death #doomed

Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#hate #policies

Death is more merciful than hope itself! There is nothing surprising in this, for death is divinely appointed, while hope is the creation of human folly. Both end in frustration. Am I destined to lead a life of endless frustration? -(The Beginning and the End) ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#frustration #hope #death

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#away #back #bring #desire #fading

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#although #essential #frustration #painful #part

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

— Dorothea Brande

#break #fail #frustration #impossible #inertia

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#frustrations #get #hostilities #paid #professions

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? ↗

— Mary Douglas

#believe #encouraged #frustration #grand #jealousy

The thing I like about decathlon is also the thing I dislike: It's the maximum challenge, but also the maximum frustration. ↗

— Ashton Eaton

#also #challenge #decathlon #dislike #frustration