Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
If God gives you gifts you must use them to justify your life. It is what the Greeks called divine discontent that… — Mary Fairfax Copy Share Image
The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence. — Lajos Kassak Copy Share Image
Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things. — Chinese Proverb Copy Share Image
Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself - (belching corruption and farting discontent!) — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our heads of how it's supposed to be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But she had not had a bold epiphany and there was no cause; it was simply that layer after layer of discontent… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Sometimes no matter how hard you try to be enough for someone, if that someone doesn't feel contented having you, then they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As humans, we're such a discontented species. We're always trying to further ourselves, and you get all the way to the moon,… — Ted Dwane Copy Share Image
Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one… — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
He who is not satisfied initially with his own creation has not made the thing actually good. But to be the best,… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“There are always two risks: the risk of trying something new, and the risk of not trying. You risk settling and continuing… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow… — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions… — Winston Churchill 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
“I think at the heart of so much restlessness of the day is a spiritual vacuum. There is a yearning for meaningful… — Bill Moyes Copy Share Image
To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way… — Fanny Burney 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
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations. — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The number is less than that of 2004, but major fatal accidents have aroused considerable public discontent. — Li Yizhong Copy Share Image
What I would say to the establishment is that there is far more discontent among the American people than they believe. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face, When discontent sits heavy at my… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Jihadist organizations attempt to exploit discontent among marginalized groups in unstable societies. — Tedros Adhanom Copy Share Image
Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Without patience, you have nothing, without work, you remain in the same place. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself. — Anna Freud Copy Share Image
“The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
