“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
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
“Keep burning the flame of discontent within you until you get the joy of satisfaction.” — Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram Copy Share Image
Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
The discontent that lies in the human condition is not satisfied simply by material things. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company. — John Green Copy Share Image
Betrayal is the harshest pain. Trust is lost, will we ever feel the same? Forever discontent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“Why would she want to come back here and live?' I wondered. 'Doesn't seem like she'd want to.' 'Why do you say… — Tawni O'Dell Copy Share Image
Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by… — Mickey Kaus Copy Share Image
“Each day, wake up with a plan. Don’t just approach your days in an unfocused void. That state of mind leaves too… — Carlos Wallace 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
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
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
The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Contentment is the door to god. If one is contented, one has already arrived. And the meaning of contentment is absolute acceptance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“So secure was his power that rumblings of discontent had finally surfaced within his own base, among black nationalists upset with his… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“Next time we will look at this from a much more basic point of view and one antedating all zoology, which, glimpsed… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“There are many oppressed people across the border, people who are dirt poor and have little chance in life. Then there are… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
“Our young don't play outside anymore; they've lost their innocence too early in their lives. We walk around the house ignoring one… — Martin Suarez Copy Share Image
Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Should the king in exile pretend he is happy there? Should he not seek his own country? His miseries are his ally;… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
“(1) When a situation has become too frustrating, a quandary too persistently insolvable; when dealing with the issue is generating chronic discontent,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressive and… — Abigail George Copy Share Image
