"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you."

Dyer, Wayne on love
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"I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again."

Rivers, Joan on work   

"Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him."

Mead, Margaret on work   

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."

Diller, Phyllis on work
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"I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy."

Conran, Shirley on work   

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."

Unknown, Source on blame
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"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."

Baldwin, James on children
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"Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away"

Mulock, Dinah on comfort
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"Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on comfort
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"I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now."

Show, Grant on comfort   

"Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up."

Schulz, Charles M. on blame
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"To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."

Plutarch on blame
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"No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."

Jong, Erica on blame
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"No one is a failure until they blame somebody else."

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous'' on blame
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"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy."

Dyer, Wayne on blame
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"In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman."

Astor, Lady Nancy on blame   

"When we blame, we give away our power."

Anderson, Greg on blame
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"I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance."

Casals, Pablo on passion
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"If I were to say, God, why me? about the bad things, then I should have said, God, why me? about the good things that happened in my life."

Ashe, Arthur on complaints and complaining
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"It is the growling man who lives a dog's life."

Cox, Coleman on complaints and complaining   

"Don't complain that you are not getting what you want, Just be glad you are not getting what you deserve!"

Unknown, Source on complaints and complaining
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"The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced."

Unknown, Source on complaints and complaining   

"When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it."

Renan, Ernest on complaints and complaining   

"He that falls by himself never cries."

Proverb, Turkish on complaints and complaining
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"The sun was shining in my eyes, and I could barely see to do the necessary task that was allotted me. Resentment of the vivid glow I started to complain. When all at once upon the air I heard the blind man's cane."

Musselman, Earl on complaints and complaining
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"The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity."

Johnson, Samuel on complaints and complaining   

"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."

Johnson on complaints and complaining   

"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 on complaints and complaining
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"The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects."

Jeffrey, Lord on complaints and complaining   

"Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy."

Franklin, Benjamin on complaints and complaining   

"There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on complaints and complaining   

"Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on complaints and complaining
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"Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem."

Allenbaugh, Eric on blame
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"Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death."

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth on bereavement
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"Men often give love for sex, women often give sex for love."

Unknown, Source on women
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"Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love."

Proverb on love
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"Live for love. Without love, you don't live."

Unknown, Source on love
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"Love, while you are able to love."

Frieligrath, A. on love
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"An angry father is most cruel toward himself."

Syrus, Publilius on fathers
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"Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy."

Aristotle on anger
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