Our Discontents Quotes

7 quotes by 5 authors

• God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would… — Douglas Wilson
• How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well, I always thought,… — Bradford Morrow
• Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents. — Edmund Leach
• Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. — Daniel Defoe
• Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents… — Daniel Defoe
• I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed, rather… — Daniel Defoe

Who Wrote These Our Discontents Quotes

5 authors contributed a total of 7 Our Discontents Quotes as follows:

• 3 Our Discontents Quotes by Daniel Defoe
• 1 Our Discontents Quote by Bradford Morrow
• 1 Our Discontents Quote by Edmund Leach
• 1 Our Discontents Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• 1 Our Discontents Quote by Douglas Wilson