irritation

Trying to please everybody is what you'll soon get tired of, because as time goes on, those you're pleasing will get tired of you.

A mixture, before the English, of irritation and bafflement, of having this same language, same past, so many same things, and yet not belonging to them any more. Being worse than rootless... speciesless.

True love is jealousy in disguise: A man cannot restrict his lover from going to the club because he hates her, he actually hates the men who would come around and touch her.

If you feel irritated or threatened by others' beliefs,it's a sign that you're experiencing crisis of confidence.

By the second day, the song lyrics had faded, but in their place came darker irritations. Gradually, I started to become aware of a young man sitting just behind me and to the left. I had noticed him when he first entered the mediation hall, and had felt a flash of annoyance at the time: something about him, especially his beard, had struck me as too calculatedly dishevelled, as if he were trying to make a statement. Now his audible breathing was starting to irritate me, too. It seemed studied, unnatural, somehow theatrical. My irritation slowly intensified - a reaction that struck me as entirely reasonable and proportionate at the time. It was all beginning to feel like a personal attack. How much contempt must the bearded meditator have for me, I seethed silently, deliberately to decide to ruin the serenity of my meditation by behaving so obnoxiously? Experienced retreat-goers, it turns out, have a term for this phenomenon. The call it 'vipassana vendetta'. In the stillness tiny irritations become magnified into full-blown hate campaigns; the mind is so conditioned to attaching to storylines that it seizes upon whatever's available. Being on retreat had temporarily separated me from all the real causes of distress in my life, and so, apparently, I was inventing new ones. As I shuffled to my narrow bed that evening, I was still smarting about the loud-breathing man. I did let go of the vendetta eventually - but only because I'd fallen into an exhausted and dreamless sleep

Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you.

I think we all keep irritating situations in our head to long, until we finally realize it__ taking up valuable space.

Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.

Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.

Sometimes, he gets on my nerves;At other times, I burn the ladder.

What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.

To some extent, it is almost blasphemous to think that insult, anger and irritation could be a positive force.

I don't have pet peeves I have whole kennels of irritation.

Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.

Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.

You__e never had someone you love snatched,_ I shot back, annoyed by her ignorance. __ny sense of safety kind of bites it after that. You watch your back because no one else can.

We tend not to look at the bigger picture of our lives and instead dwell on the small things that irritate us. When we focus on the bigger picture, those small things fade away.