A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret… — Thomas Campion Copy Share Image
“Denis's love for Mattia had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.” — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Lily sank with a sigh into one of the shabby leather chairs. "How delicious to have a place like this all to… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Don't Be Like People Who Never Seem Happy With What they Have And Always Think That Other People Have A Better Situation… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
. . . just as God cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance, as we become more like Him,… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“People were capable of living their lives in a state of permanent disappointment, there were plenty of people who did not marry… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
It would much conduce to the settlement of your hearts, to consider, That by fretting and discontent, you do yourselves more injury… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Pop music can somehow survive being inhibited and mangled by its harsh and stupid commercial chains, and there is surely irreducible potential… — Paul Morley Copy Share Image
The greatest opportunities for creative transformation are often lodged in our discontents. Art is an alchemical process that feeds on emotional energy.… — Shaun McNiff Copy Share Image
If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that… — Zechariah Chafee Copy Share Image
Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to… — Cyril Cusack Copy Share Image
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for… — Ieyasu Tokugawa Copy Share Image
The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontent(ment ) is -… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Just because you have everything people always wanted doesn't mean you are happy. As long as you never stop hunting for more,… — Mielya Saladdin Copy Share Image
All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
No, his mind is not for rent To any God or government Always hopeful yet discontent He knows changes aren't permanent But… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“My discontent has accumulated over the past months, searching for a leak in the dam I’ve constructed to separate my true feelings… — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
“But it wasn't long before the old familiar discontent started creeping up on me. I suppose it was always there, somewhere in… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
“Let me be content with myself to the degree that my capacity to serve others is present, yet discontent with myself to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
