"When we complain, we often project onto others the dissatisfaction of how we're dealing with our own lives."

-- P. M. Forni

#Complaining Quotes #Projects Quotes #Dissatisfaction Quotes

“If it can be dreamed, it can be done.”
“Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”
“What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.”
“Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.”
“I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.”
“The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence that his livelihood is in danger of being taken away from him by us, he becomes our mortal enemy. . . The Arab is primitive and believes what he is told.”
“I was an English major.”
“I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.”

Source : Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.244, University of Chicago Press

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