Unpleasantness Quotes
25 quotes by 22 authors
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Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the…
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration.
— Edward Adam Strecker
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The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting…
— Herman Melville
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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as…
— Arnold Bennett
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Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us the language and…
— Robert A. Burton
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We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us. We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts, and…
— Henepola Gunaratana
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From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the…
— Dalai Lama
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The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.
— Marie Bashkirtseff
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The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and lives throughout the…
— Rudolf Steiner
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When you say to yourself, 'I am going to have a pleasant visit or a pleasant journey,' you are literally sending elements and forces ahead…
— Prentice Mulford
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If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable…
— Claire Weekes
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Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. - To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just…
— Bruce Lee
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The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort and defeat without…
— Ann Landers
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Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying…
— Mitch Daniels
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we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.
— Bill McKibben
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I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns…
— Henri Matisse
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I’ve won his heart, but it’s like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently locked. He wants to shield me from…
— Lisa Kleypas
Who Wrote These Unpleasantness Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 25 Unpleasantness Quotes as follows: