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• The death anxiety of many people is fueled ... by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential. Many people are in despair because their dreams didn't come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true. A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Dream, Disappointment, People

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• I was simply restless, quite likely because of a dissatisfaction with the recent trajectory of my life, and if there is a better, more compelling reason for dropping everything and moving to the end of the world, I know not what it is.

  J. Maarten Troost

  Moving, Compelling Reason, World

  J. Maarten Troost (2004). “The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific”, Broadway

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• The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems, and a marked dissatisfaction with traditional philosophy as superficial, academic, and remote from life-that is the heart of existentialism.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Philosophy, Heart, School

  Walter Kaufmann (2016). “Existentialism From Dostoevsky To Sartre”, p.10, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I am satisfied with the dissatisfaction that never rests until it is satisfied and satisfied again.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Satisfied

  "Wigglesworth: The Complete Story". Book by Julian Wilson, 2002.

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• In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Covered Up, Live For Today, Ordinary

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• The schemes to set up blacks in cleaning stores, gas stations, hamburger stands and fried-chicken franchises, all the low-profit, low-capital enterprises, will rivet the Black man to the least remunerative section of the economy forever. The best such prospects offer are the dissatisfactions of blue-collar life. The big money ain't in pumping rationed gas in an Amoco station leased in your very own name, but in having stock in Exxon.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Men, Blue

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• Popular dissatisfaction seems to occur only when the shopping or the commercials are interrupted. In such an atmosphere, is there any reason to imagine that saturation shopping could be a source of instability to the U.S. world position?

  Herbert Schiller

  Shopping, Atmosphere, World

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• Success is not necessarily determined by material possessions or accomplishments. You can enjoy success simply by reaching the point where you are perfectly content with your life in every respect and you feel no dissatisfaction or pressing need for anything else. In this sense, you can be a success sitting by yourself in a quiet place contemplating the world.

  Brian Tracy

  Accomplishment, Needs, Sitting

  Brian Tracy (2002). “The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success”, p.29, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The highest percentage of respondents say that biggest problem in the country is the government. The biggest problem facing our country today is that our government is terrible. Dissatisfaction with the government, problem numero uno by a mile.

  Rachel Maddow

  Country, Government, Today

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• Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Vanity, Envy, Feelings

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• I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

  Jimmy Carter

  Party, White, Government

  "Interview with Former President Jimmy Carter". "Larry King Live", www.realclearpolitics.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Yahoo has gone too far in wrongfully accusing us of a conspiracy that doesn't exist. If they are having problems retaining engineers, they should be looking at the internal sources of employee dissatisfaction rather than trying to cover that up with this legal action.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Trying, Gone, Action

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• Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed.

  Shaun McNiff

  Creativity, Frustration, Expression

  Shaun McNiff (1998). “Trust the Process”, p.48, Shambhala Publications

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• I like any place that isn't here.

  Edna Ferber

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Gigolo”, p.167, Booklassic

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• The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.

  Charles Kettering

  Keys, Prosperity, Creation

  "The End of Work" by Jeremy Rifkin, (p. 19), 1995.

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• Joni Mitchell seems destined to remain in a state of permanent dissatisfaction - always knowing what she would like to do, always more depressed when it's done.

  Jon Landau

  Knowing, Done, States

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• Many people who say they have financial problems really mean that they want more than they need.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Mean, People, Needs

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.153, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I sort of pride myself in my dissatisfaction with my work. I've always been concerned with buying the hype, and having that make your performances suffer.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Pride, Hype, Suffering

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of an incessant dissatisfaction that I have, that I'm always trying to either expose or fight against or wrestle with.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Fighting, Always Trying, Kind

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• But who, in the Western world, has not been deranged by a toxic cocktail of dissatisfaction, restlessness, desire and resentment? Who has not yearned to be younger, richer, more talented, more respected, more celebrated, and, above all, more sexually attractive? Who has not felt entitled to more and aggrieved when more was not forthcoming? It is possible that a starving African farmer has less sense of injustice than a middle-aged Western male who has never been fellated.

  Michael Foley

  Desire, Cocktails, Males

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• And you, whiner, who wastes your time
  Dawdling over the remorseless earth,
  What evil, what unspeakable crime
  Have you made your life worth?

  W. D. Snodgrass

  Evil, Earth, Waste

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• A lot of people have a dissatisfaction or an anger in them, so as soon as something goes awry, they flip out.

  Brigid Brannagh

  People, Flip

  Source: collider.com

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• When you look at yourself and feel dissatisfaction about any part of you, you will continue to attract feelings of dissatisfaction, because the law mirrors back to you exactly what you are holding inside. Be in awe and wonder at the magnificence of you!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Mirrors, Law, Awe And Wonder

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.

  Jay Electronica

  Different

  "Jay Electronica" by Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.

  Anton Chekhov

  Heart, Thinking, Tears

  Anton Chekhov (2011). “Forty Stories”, p.309, Vintage

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