Appreciation Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of…

— Charles Kingsley

Noble discontent is the path to heaven.

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

“Then our minds go through an entire revolution. We are no more troubled by anger and hatred, no more bitten by envy and ambition,…

— Kaiten Nukariya

A person of power embraces challenges in complete gratitude. No matter the situation life may bring, discontent is never justified, rather all is experienced…

— James Arthur Ray

“It is in the ardent revolutionist to whom the joys of art, of science, even of family life, seem bitter, so long as they…

— Peter Kropotkin

Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to…

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense of discontent…

— Chin-Ning Chu

There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being thought extremely…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be…

— Henry Van Dyke

It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.

— David Guerrero