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"Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about."
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"Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one."
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"Many people go through life complaining, whining, and obsessing so much about what they don't have that they are doing exactly what it takes to block it."
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"The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing."
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"Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about."
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"Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink."
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"If anyone comes to me complaining about others that "this person is like this, I will question that person first. 'Why did you come complaining to me?' You come complaining therefore you are the guilty one. If anyone comes complaining without being asked, then you should disregard him completely."
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"The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity."
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"Don't complain against life, it may hear you and double your suffering."
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"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed."
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"The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects."
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"I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a pool of water, and she could dive down into the center of the world."
Water
"In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too."
Success
"I know it sounds crazy, but I have had far more connection with my parents after their deaths."
Connection
"You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian."
Family
"Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about."
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"People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing."
People
"Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church."
Father
"After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away."
Money
"My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was!"
Power
"I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that."
People
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