#frustration

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations. ↗

— Samuel Ullman

#act #become #bounds #dignity #during

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration. ↗

— Ice Cube

#freedom #frustration #i #i love #love

There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#country #coup #disappears #frustration #moments

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

#cleaning #exhaustion #frustration #i #laugh

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#clerk #faculty #favourite #frustration #get

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream. ↗

— Temple Grandin

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We started the company out of frustration with the employer that we had because we were building great stuff and there was no way that this stuff was ever going to get into the hands of the people who could use it. ↗

— John Warnock

#building #company #could #employer #ever

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#apathy #believe #come #despair #disappointment

God is always trying to give blessings to us, but our minds are usually too full to receive them. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#blessings #clouded-thoughts #confusion #delusions #doubt

I have my own worries and concerns and frustrations, but I'm doing something I love to do. My wife and kids are in good shape. What is there not to be happy about? ↗

— Chris O'Donnell

#be happy #concerns #doing #frustrations #good