Calamity Quote by Lao Tzu

. . . [R]estlessness usually stems from pride and from being discontented with one's lot in life.

— Vincent de Paul

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

— Anonymous

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

— Laozi

“if I had not the body, what great calamity could come to me?”

— Lao Tzu

“What makes me liable to great calamity is my having the body (which I call myself); if I had not the body, what great…

— Lao Tzu

No disaster is worse than being discontented.

— Laozi

“Such was the way of the discontented. No proof, no explanation or reason would ever be enough to disabuse them of tightly held, deeply…

— Christie Golden

I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and…

— Jeremiah Burroughs

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

I never saw a discontented tree.

— John Muir

“When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage however, that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making…

— Lawrence Sterne

Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon