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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
Johnson
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
Sir William Temple
To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
Mark Twain
A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
Walter Winchell
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
Lou Holtz
I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
Johann von Goethe
The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
Heywood Broun
We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
Laurence Sterne
If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.
Damien Cannon
The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.
Sydney J. Harris
