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
It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Happiness never come to those who have refused to appreciate what they already have. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But I am all for love, and I am against marriage, particularly the arranged kind, because the arranged marriage gives you satisfaction.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh 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
There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he… — Laozi Copy Share Image
...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Don't be upset by the results you didn't get with the work you didn't do. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member… — Jose Ortega y Gasset 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
“As his (C. S. Lewis's) good friend Owen Barfield once remarked, Lewis radiated a sense that the spiritual world is home, that… — David C. Downing 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 unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense… — Chin-Ning Chu Copy Share Image
The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown,… — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well,… — Bradford Morrow Copy Share Image
