Discontent Quote by Thomas Wentworth Higginson Download Open image “Noble discontent is the path to heaven.” — Thomas Wentworth Higginson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discontent Heaven Inspirational Journey Noble Path
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 Copy Share Image
Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that minds afflicted… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Those who seek the kingdom of heaven find it, those who deserve it receive it, but those who don't are trapped in endless desires.” — Nasr Copy Share Image
Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
But days even earlier than these, in April, have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy, when the sky is dull… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half of April...… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice,… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted. — Alice Dunbar Nelson Copy Share Image
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“And since he was seeing more and more people who were unhappy for no apparent reason, he was becoming more and more tired, and… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
You can spend your whole life complaining about how much you hate life or you can spend it finding new ways to love it. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent, Adversity then breeds the discontent. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself. — Anna Freud Copy Share Image
