Quotes About Dissatisfaction

but what Serena hadn't been able to deal with was the pathetic way Diane had always bragged about everything. From having the better father to receiving all

I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.

Is there anything more dangerous than dissatisfied and irresponsible gods who don't know what they want?

Homo sapiens is just not built for satisfaction. Human happiness depends less on objective condition and more on our own expectations. Expectations, however, tend to adapt to conditions, including to the condition of other people. When things improve, expectations balloon, and consequently even dramatic improvement in conditions might leave us as dissatisfied as before.

Homo sapiens is just not built for satisfaction. Human happiness depends less on objective conditions and more on our own expectations. Expectations, however, tend to adapt to conditions, including the conditions of other people. When things improve, expectations balloon, and so even dramatic improvements in conditions might leave us as dissatisfied as before.

When the mind experiences something distasteful it craves to be rid of the irritation. When the mind experiences something pleasant, it craves that the pleasure will remain and will intensify. Therefore, the mind is always dissatisfied and restless.

the real root of suffering is this never-ending and pointless pursuit of ephemeral feelings, which causes us to be in a constant state of tension, restlessness and dissatisfaction.

Some become anxious that their partner will leave; others feel that they have settled cheaply, and could have found someone better. And we all know people who manage to do both.

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.

I didn't like mundane life.

evidence shows most workplaces filled with distrustful, disengaged, dissatisfied, despairing employees.

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.

Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can no longer tolerate them.

Grayson was Not Please-and no one did Not Pleased like Grayson Hawthrone.

Grayson was Not Pleased-and no one did Not Pleased like Grayson Hawthorne.

Sinn Féiners? (The Gaelic phrase meant us-aloners. They went around ranting that home rule wouldn't be enough now; nothing would content them but a breakaway republic.)

Tim: I shot my TV.

Pascal was of the opinion that "one was well-minded to understand holy writ when one hated oneself."20 There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and a proneness to credulity

We felt uncomfortable in a country that called itself "the land of the free" but did not do much to qualify for the claim.

I was dissatisfied with the status quo back in the 80's, particularly how the West was represented in federation. I wanted to try to change it.

I can't pretend to being particularly happy about Jeremy Corbyn being leader of the Labour party.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are two peas in the same pod, and the American people have tasted that, and said, 'Look, that's not a good taste.'