We can start by living by the Spirit while we stop…

Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what…

— Alistair Begg

“So much of me longs to run after him and cry, 'Yes, yes, yes!' A few hours ago, when I wrote I could never…

— Dodie Smith

“The reality is that stuff does not bring happiness. Instead, buying more than we need breeds nothing but discontentment.”

— Ruth Soukup

“How can one explain this trend towards a more colorless and shallow life? Well, the work was easier, if less healthy, and it brought…

— Ernst Jünger

“The deep rumbling of discontent that we hear today is the thunder of disinherited masses rising from dungeons of oppression to the bright hills…

— Martin Luther King Jr

I've always been dissatisfied, I know that. But lately I find that I reek of discontentment. It fills my throat, and it floods my…

— David McCullough

“Real happiness, however, comes from who we are—from who we’ve become. Real happiness comes from within. Likewise, discontentment is also a result of who…

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage however, that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making…

— Lawrence Sterne

But I am all for love, and I am against marriage, particularly the arranged kind, because the arranged marriage gives you satisfaction. And love?…

— Rajneesh

“Discontentment happens when I don’t have what I want. Contentment happens when I realize that I have so much more than I deserve.”

— Stephen Altrogge

“It was not desirable for the proles to have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could…

— George Orwell

I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I…

— Paulo Coelho

“Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don't think all of them are in a ceremonius mood.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which,…

— Joseph Hall