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“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
― Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.”
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“Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem”
― Veronika Decides to Die
― Veronika Decides to Die
“I have always found that actively loving
saves one from a morbid preoccupation
with the shortcomings of society.”
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saves one from a morbid preoccupation
with the shortcomings of society.”
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“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.”
― The Last Lecture
― The Last Lecture
“I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.”
― The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
― The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
“See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.”
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.”
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“If you took one-tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out... Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.”
― The Last Lecture
― The Last Lecture
“When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.”
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“How to win in life:
1 work hard
2 complain less
3 listen more
4 try, learn, grow
5 don't let people tell you it cant be done
6 make no excuses”
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1 work hard
2 complain less
3 listen more
4 try, learn, grow
5 don't let people tell you it cant be done
6 make no excuses”
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“A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.”
― Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor
― Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor
“The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listenerâ€� a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.”
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
“I know it's important to do more than just complain when there's something you don't like. You need to try to do something about it, or you're nothing but a whiner.”
― Twice Upon a Marigold
― Twice Upon a Marigold
“The truly patient man neither complains of his hard lot nor desires to be pitied by others. He speaks of his sufferings in a natural, true, and sincere way, without murmuring, complaining, or exaggerating them.”
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“God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.”
― La Petite Fadette
― La Petite Fadette
“He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
“pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.”
― Your Erroneous Zones
― Your Erroneous Zones
“She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.”
― Bloodhound
― Bloodhound
“Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.”
― Jesus + Nothing = Everything
― Jesus + Nothing = Everything
“When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.”
― The Lords of Discipline
― The Lords of Discipline
“Complains are like the clouds that produce no rain no matter how thick they gather. Never depend on your complaint thinking they are stair cases. Drop that thing.”
― Shaping the dream
― Shaping the dream
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