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For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly have present to it at the time)...always providing that one has the courage to ask questions, to be dissatisfied, to think with the mind and heart one ACTUALLY has, and not with the mind and heart one is SUPPOSED TO have.

Karl Rahner

Grief, Blessed, Heart

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Did I have a heart to be contented? Well, no, not particularly. I had a tendency to be discontented: ambitious, dissatisfied, fretful, and tough to please...It's easier to complain than to laugh, easier to yell than to joke around, easier to be demanding than to be satisfied.

Gretchen Rubin

Heart, Laughing, Ambitious

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If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

Jeff Bridges

Thinking, Long, Littles

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I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

Stanley Tucci

Actors, Just Being

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Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you're dissatisfied from it, you can change it.

Jennifer Echols

Life, Purpose, Chance

Jennifer Echols (2009). “Going Too Far”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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Sometimes I surprise myself with how dissatisfied I am with seemingly satisfying experiences.

Ezra Koenig

Sometimes, Surprise, Satisfying

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We may all be a peculiar lot...often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work...but we know how to have a ball that makes the rest of the world seem square.

Vincent Price

Squares, Peculiar, Balls

Vincent Price (2016). “I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography”, p.294, Open Road Media

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Our entire society is based on discontent. People wanting more and more and more. Being constantly dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their décor, their clothes, everything – taking it for granted that that’s the whole point of life. Never to be satisfied. If you are perfectly happy with what you got, especially if what you got isn’t even all the spectacular then you’re dangerous. You’re breaking all the rules. You’re undermining the sacred economy. You’re challenging every assumption that society is built on.

Tana French

Home, Clothes, People

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The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it’s taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it’s mountaineering; it’s wanting to get to the very top of yourself and feeling angry and dissatisfied when you don’t manage it

Paulo Coelho

Fall, Games, Feelings

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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

Michel de Montaigne

Joy, Host, Stubbornness

Michel de Montaigne (1995). “Four Essays”, Penguin Group USA

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You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but endeavour to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression that may be used with truth; such as, you understand the game better than I, but you are a little inattentive, or, you play too fast; or, you had the best of the game, but something happened to divert your thoughts, and that turned it in my favour.

Benjamin Franklin

Expression, Games, Play

George Walker, Benjamin Franklin, William Stopford Kenny (1841). “The chess player: by George Walker; to which are added the three games played at one and the same time by Philidor; sixty openings, mates and situations, by W. S. Kenny, with remarks, anecdotes, &c. &c., and an explanation of the round chess board”, p.10

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But, as we've seen over the last several months, the people in this country are very dissatisfied with the direction that this administration is taking this country. And what we heard last night was absolutely the ignoring of that fact. It was: We're going to continue with this agenda. In fact, we're going to double down on healthcare.

Eric Cantor

Country, Night, People

"POLITICO Interview: Eric Cantor". Interview with Mike Allen, www.politico.com. January 29, 2010.

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Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.

Ricardo Semler

People, Purpose, Demand

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As Democratic losses mounted in Senate races across the country on election night, some liberal commentators clung to the idea that dissatisfied voters were sending a generally anti-incumbent message, and not specifically repudiating Democratic officeholders. But the facts of the election just don't support that story.

Byron York

Country, Loss, Night

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Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

Desiderius Erasmus

Mother, Nature, Heart

Desiderius Erasmus, Erika Rummel (1990). “The Erasmus Reader”, p.156, University of Toronto Press

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Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.

Robert Frost

Song, Learning, May

Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied that he hasn't done something and placing myself in his position as judge.

Paul David Tripp

People, Judging, Done

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If you are dissatisfied with the way the world works, it is because your heart is prompting you to change it.

Jason Russell

Heart, World, Way

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The only chance of satisfaction we can imagine is getting more of what we have now. But what we have now makes everybody dissatisfied. So what will more of it do -- make us more satisfied, or more dissatisfied?

Jeremy Seabrook

Satisfaction, Chance, Imagine

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It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Understanding, Faults, Common

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I've done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am, as a film-goer. You want to go see a film that surprises you in some way.

Christopher Nolan

Careers, Done, Want

Christopher Nolan, Jonah Nolan (2010). “Inception: The Shooting Script”, p.18, Insight Editions

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As I visualize the new, I become dissatisfied with the old.

Louis Tice

Inspiring, Success, Business

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Building your "dream life" is filled with things that can feel like the opposite of a dream:
Mistakes
Delays
Starting over
Failure

The building part is actually more of a rebuilding that is a continual process. The building is not linear in nature but far more interesting. You might start a creative dream, take the "next step", and find yourself completely bored, dissatisfied, or just not inspired.

Sark

Dream, Mistake, Opposites

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Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.

Charlie Chaplin

Want, Despotism, Shots

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When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment.

Hannah More

Vanity, Contentment, Emulation

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