Gratitude Quote by Daniel Defoe

“All our discontents about what we want appeared to me 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…

— Daniel Defoe

And which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given…

— 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,…

— Daniel Defoe

“[He] embodies this tension between civilization and its discontents, between the longing for a rational and cultured life and the bad luck and regrets…

— Daniel Menaker

“Words are the mirrors of our discontents merely; they contain all the huge unhatched eggs of the world's sorrows.”

— Lawrence Durrell

Let thy discontents be thy secrets

— Benjamin Franklin

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

— Aldous Huxley

“Neither deficiencies nor disappointments, losses nor crosses, can cause disquieting discontents in that bosom where faith is commander in chief.”

— Thomas Watson

“Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents’, on April 23, 1770: ‘When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall,…

— 97 Edmund Burke

Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.

— Mason Cooley

Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow