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My natural pessimism now works on Hay's natural pessimism until we are both quite out of our minds." Henry Adams

Never allow carping critics to deter you from success. Instead, silence them with it.

Organizing a coup was not the same as wanting one.

Not even once has life or the weather complained about a human being.

Not everyone was privileged to see another sunrise like you did, so before you start complaining remember that the breath of life is not for sale.

On May 26th, 2003, Aaron Ralston was hiking, a boulder fell on his right hand, he waited four days, he then amputated his own arm with a pocketknife. On New Year’s Eve, a woman was bungee jumping, the cord broke, she fell into a river and had to swim back to land in crocodile-infested waters with a broken collarbone. Claire Champlin was smashed in the face by a five-pound watermelon being propelled by a slingshot. Mathew Brobst was hit by a javelin. David Striegl was actually punched in the mouth by a kangaroo. The most amazing part of these stories is when asked about the experience they all smiled, shrugged and said “I guess things could’ve been worse.” So go ahead, tell me you’re having a bad day. Tell me about the traffic. Tell me about your boss. Tell me about the job you’ve been trying to quit for the past four years. Tell me the morning is just a townhouse burning to the ground and the snooze button is a fire extinguisher. Tell me the alarm clock stole the keys to your smile, drove it into 7 am and the crash totaled your happiness. Tell me. Tell me how blessed are we to have tragedy so small it can fit on the tips of our tongues. When Evan lost his legs he was speechless. When my cousin was assaulted she didn’t speak for 48 hours. When my uncle was murdered, we had to send out a search party to find my father’s voice. Most people have no idea that tragedy and silence often have the exact same address. When your day is a museum of disappointments, hanging from events that were outside of your control, when you feel like your guardian angel put in his two weeks notice two months ago and just decided not to tell you, when it seems like God is just a babysitter that’s always on the phone, when you get punched in the esophagus by a fistful of life. Remember, every year two million people die of dehydration. So it doesn’t matter if the glass is half full or half empty. There’s water in the cup. Drink it and stop complaining. Muscle is created by lifting things that are designed to weigh us down. When your shoulders are heavy stand up straight and call it exercise. Life is a gym membership with a really complicated cancellation policy. Remember, you will survive, things could be worse, and we are never given anything we can’t handle. When the whole world crumbles, you have to build a new one out of all the pieces that are still here. Remember, you are still here. The human heart beats approximately 4,000 times per hour and each pulse, each throb, each palpitation is a trophy, engraved with the words “You are still alive.” You are still alive. So act like it.

Restrain from Complaining and Explaining

Shit on me. Cold wet balls for more than thirty blocks. This is really going to suck major ass.

Some people make it extremely difficult to continue believing that complaining is not one of the basic human needs.

Sometimes I’m a spiritual wimp and a whiner.

The apprehension of this blessed truth (God's faithfulness) will check our murmurings. The Lord knows what is best for each of us, and one effect or resting on this truth will be the silencing of our petulant complainings. God is greatly honored when, under trial and chastening, we have good thoughts of Him, vindicate His wisdom and justice, and recognize His love in His very rebukes.

The hammer never complains of the noise.

The main way people waste time is by complaining of their past wasted time. Leaders respond even if it seems to be late.

New York Times founder Henry Raymond started his newspaper, "with the goal of reforming government, not belittling it.

Passion must be subject to reason; emotions lead one astray. "There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain.

People who complain about something that they cannot do anything about are as irritating as those who complain about something that they can do something about.

People who truly live their lives don't have time to complain or judge others. They're too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between!

Problems don't fix themselves until you fix your attitude

Screw that lieutenant and screw being suspended or fired! I’ll get another job! One that doesn’t turn me into a human target for every criminal with a grudge against the law because he got his stupid ass arrested for breaking the law and now hates cops!

Sister, there are people who went to sleep all over the world last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. Sister, those who expected to rise did not, their beds became their cooling boards, and their blankets became their winding sheets. And those dead folks would give anything, anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of that plowing that person was grumbling about. So you watch yourself about complaining, Sister. 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.

Solving some problems requires less than half the energy or time it took to complain about them.

Still, you must especially avoid those who are gloomy and always lamenting, and who grasp at every pretext for complaint. Though a man's loyalty and kindness may not be in doubt, a companion who is agitated and groaning about everything is an enemy to peace of mind.

Stop complaining, start contributing; stop crying, start smiling; and stop criticizing, start praising.

Stop complaining and do something... Shut up! Rise up! Grow up! And show up! See you at the top!

Stop giving complaints to people about what you can't do. Start giving compliments to God for what you can do. It'll amaze you; you'll see yourself doing amazingly!

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.

Teain had no difficulty generating the indignation of a satirist. He lack the patience of a reformer.

That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.

The difference between a conventional counsellor and an empowerment counsellor is that a conventional therapist will allow you to dwell in your pit of misery for months, years and possibly even decades; whereas an empowerment counsellor will challenge you to recognise that your past pains and seemingly negative experiences are the very key to accessing your greatest self.

The minutes you waste complaining after failing aren't going to get the job done. Quit complaining and try again!

The Offices rerooted me in a tradition where, monk or not, I would always be at home. From long ago I knew the power of their repetition, the incantatory force of the Psalms. But they had an added power now. As a kid, the psalmist (or psalmists) had seemed remote to me, the Psalms long prayers which sometimes rose to great poetry but often had simply to be endured. For a middle-aged man, the psalmists' moods and feelings came alive. One of the voices sounded a lot like a modern New Yorker, me or people I knew: a manic-depressive type A personality sometimes up, more often down, sometimes resigned, more often pissed off, railing about his sneaky enemies and feckless friends, always bitching to the Lord about the rotten hand he'd been dealt. That good old changelessness.

The only nations which deny the utility of provincial liberties are those which have fewest of them; in other words, those who are unacquainted with the institution are the only persons who passed censure upon it.

The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.

The United States is a successful nation that is constantly susceptible to melancholy because things are not perfect.

This was our last night. We only had one curtain call, Bree. And I thought they were going to give us a standing ovation, but no-o-o-. Do you know why half the audience stood up?" "To get a head start on the traffic," Bree said. "To get a head start on the traffic," Antonia agreed in indignation. "I mean, here we are, dancing and singing our little guts out, and all those folks want to do is get to bed early. I ask you, whatever happened to common courtesy? Whatever happened to decent manners? Doesn't anyone care about craft anymore? And on top of that, it's not even nice.

Those who complain much get little, those who complain little get much.

Those who complain that fate is against them will have a hard time finding happiness in their lives

To feel nostalgic about the past is as foolish as complaining about the past.

Try not to waste today by continuing on the same chapter you were complaining about yesterday.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

Well, I don't want to complain," Apple began. "Oh, go ahead and complain. That's why you have a best friend forever after.

What’s the point of complaining. It just makes the people around you feel bad too." - Savannah

What's the use of complaining about something you have no intentions of changing it?

What's the use of complaining about something you have no intentions of changing?

When he thought to complain about the burden of it’s weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the cold of the dawn

When we were born, we were thrown off to land on earth. The successful kept calm and created their wings on their way down. The losers were busy complaining against the creator why he did not give wings to them knowing they had to fly.

When you complain, you explain pain for no gain. Endure and balance yourself through the pain, be hopeful and persist to the end.

When you say, ‘Women are untrustworthy bitches. They lie and cheat and will nail anything that moves.’ Do you know what I hear from your lips? Listen now, for I shall tell you. I hear you speak these words: 'I am an untrustworthy bastard. I lie and cheat and nail anything that moves.' André Chevalier

When you walk in gratitude for what God has done you have riches above measure but when you complain poverty becomes your best friend

Who cares? My balls are wet! The city is going to shit and you guys are yapping about this crap, as if we don’t have a worry in the world.