The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“Comparison with myself brings improvement, comparison with others brings discontent.” — Betty Jamie Chung Copy Share Image
All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it. — William Saroyan 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
You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Our discontent begins by finding false villains whom we can accuse of deceiving us. Next we find false heroes whom we expect… — Daniel J. Boorstin 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
Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers...Restlessness and discontent are vital things... Intense experience and suffering… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Your happiness will not depend on others anymore. You should be happy because you love who you are. Love your flaws. Love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert'… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life… — Henry David Thoreau 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
“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
. . . 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
By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill,… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away… — Anthony Liccione 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
“Over time marked with periodic starvation and after enduring a life lacking in wholesome personal habits, a person learns how to harness… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
