Discontent Quotes - Page 5

• literature is the record of our discontent.

  Virginia Woolf

  Records, Literature

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2014, Delphi Classics

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• he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Names, Pleasure

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1833). “The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c”, p.36

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• One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Laughter, Men, Gun

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1896). “The Earth Girdled: The World as Seen To-day”

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• A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.

  David Guerrero

  Happiness, Pleasure, Committed

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• [Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.

  Paolo Giordano

  Break Up, Breakup, Empty Rooms

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• Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

  Samuel Johnson

  Emptiness, Impatient, Neglect

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.230

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• it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Change, Trying

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.

  Franz Kafka

  Silent, Retiring, Persons

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• We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Motivational, Thanksgiving, Kids

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• Never be discontent with the life you've been dealt, be discontent with the way you're living it.

  Mike Donehey

  Way

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• One whisper, added to a thousand others, becomes a roar of discontent

  Julie Garwood

  Thousand

  Julie Garwood (2011). “The Secret”, p.234, Penguin

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• Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Shapes, Satisfaction, Neighbor

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• You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Gratitude, Benefits

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• Contentment is the door to god. If one is contented, one has already arrived. And the meaning of contentment is absolute acceptance as you are. Contentment means acceptance, discontentment means non-acceptance. A wants to become B - that is discontent. A is perfectly happy in being A, there is no desire to become B - that is contentment.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Acceptance, Doors

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• The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.

  Lajos Kassak

  Mother, Father, Diligence

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• Some Western politicians are already threatening us with not just sanctions, but also the prospect of increasingly serious problems on the domestic front. I would like to know what it is they have in mind exactly: action by a fifth column, this disparate bunch of 'national traitors', or are they hoping to put us in a worsening social and economic situation so as to provoke public discontent? We consider such statements irresponsible and clearly aggressive in tone, and we will respond to them accordingly.

  Vladimir Putin

  Powerful, Threatening Us, Mind

  "Prince Charles is right: Similarites between Putin and Hitler are uncanny" by Trent Franks, www.foxnews.com. May 23, 2014.

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• If God gives you gifts you must use them to justify your life. It is what the Greeks called divine discontent that drives you.

  Mary Fairfax

  Wisdom, Giving, Greek

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• It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

  George Eliot

  Love, Strong, Conceited

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2804, Delphi Classics

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• The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time.

  Eric Rucker Eddison

  Wisdom, Nature, Ambition

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• Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Simple, Men, Thinking

  馬可•奧里略 (Marcus Aurelius) (2014). “沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著”, p.49, 德威國際文化

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• The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early discontents, I expect that a just, dispassionate and steady conduct, will at length rally to a proper system the great body of our country. Unequivocal in principle, reasonable in manner, we shall be able I hope to do a great deal of good to the cause of freedom & harmony.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Character, Rocks

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.468

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• All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Feet, May, Human Nature

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• Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Regret, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• . . . just as God cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance, as we become more like Him, neither can we. The best people have a heightened awareness of what little of the worst is still in them! Indeed, the divine discontent, the justifiable spiritual restlessness that we feel, is a natural follow-on feeling in the disciple who has taken the Lord's counsel to "make you a new heart and a new spirit." (Ezekiel 18:31.)

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Spiritual, Taken, Heart

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• Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

  Oscar Wilde

  Civilization, Class, People

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1044, Wordsworth Editions

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