Quotes about Discontent

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Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear to be w — Matthew Lewis, The Monk
Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reas — Criss Jami, Killosophy
There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Di — Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Seekers, what are you seeking? Why aren't you happy just to be alive? — Marty Rubin
I think at the heart of so much restlessness of the day is a spiritual vacuum. There is a yearning for meaningful lives, — Bill Moyes
Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you — John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
Back at home, days later, feel cranky and tired. Sit on the couch and tell him he's stupid. That you bet he doesn't know — Lorrie Moore, Self-Help
I guess we're all, or most of us, the wards of that nineteenth-century science which denied existence to anything it cou — John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
The negative way of thinking based on constant complaints, strains, and objections of discontent steals our energy — Sunday Adelaja
Discontent comes from two sources alone: Not having dreams, or not pursuing the ones you have. No one has ever died sorr — John Kramer, Blythe
The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy. — Criss Jami
The matter of sedition is of two kinds: much poverty and much discontentment....The causes and motives of sedition are, — Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contem — Jude Morgan, The Taste of Sorrow
When discontent sets in it's time to make some changes. In a world where so much is possible, yet so many people are unh — Chris Guillebeau, The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life
You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy. — Criss Jami, Healology
Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than — Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
To reach the pinnacle of success, you have to cross the treacherous valleys of failures and discontent. — Debasish Mridha
What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life, is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't s — Laura Story
It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of it — Criss Jami
You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow. — Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability