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Quotes About Discontentment

The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.
~ A.S. Neill
G. K. Chesterton once said that to be thankful is the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Thanklessness, then,must be the lowest form of thought, and ingratitude is discontentment, bankrupted of wonder.
~ Ravi Zacharias
Obviously these people are destined to be frustrated and discontented most of the time. Don't spend your life trying to make the impossible possible. People have faults and there is no way around it! No matter who you are in relationship with there will be times when they will disappoint you, so plan on forgiving frequently.
~ Joyce Meyer
Be-basi hain ek chuban si hain Khush hain par ek ghutan si hain
~ Wajid Shaikh
I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.
~ Walker Percy
When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
~ Laurence Sterne
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
~ Anton Chekhov
For each desire we fulfill in accordance with this strategy, a new desire will pop into our head to take its place. This means that no matter how hard we work to satisfy our desires, we will be no closer to satisfaction than if we had fulfilled none of them. We will, in other words, remain dissatisfied.
~ William B. Irvine
I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and against the grace of faith.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontent(ment ) is - a questioning of the goodness of God.
~ Jerry Bridges
Because ENOUGH is TOO MUCH!And look around ...can you blame us?!
~ Morrissey
I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
~ Janis Joplin
You might as well tell me there was nobody but Adam in the garden when Eve picked the apple. You say your wife was discontented? No woman ever knows she's discontented till some man tells her so. My God! I've seen smash-ups before now; but I never yet saw a marriage dissolved like a business partnership.
~ Edith Wharton
Without meaning we are surely less than human and deeply discontented. Most meaning is largely preconceptual and not subject to words, and in that sense it is nonrational, but meaning lies in wait to appear and grab onto the right symbol in the right moment.
~ Richard Rohr
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
I preyed on this sort of thing, discontentment, a clash of passions among the rivals, and the zealots. Open sores opened secrets. That's how I roll." Jackson Guild, The Trinity Conspiracy, Betrayal at Black Mesa
~ Jeff Shear
Oh, cold world -- I have grown so weary of you and all your horrible bathrooms.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
~ Aesop
What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.
~ Jay Electronica
I'm a little angry in life.
~ Vincent Cassel
. . . [R]estlessness usually stems from pride and from being discontented with one's lot in life.
~ Vincent de Paul
Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
All changes — ?spiritual revivals, a turnaround in a church, a barren life now bearing fruit — ?begin when there is a discontentment that says, "I refuse to accept this.
~ Jim Cymbala
Discontment is an insidious thing, trapping us into thinking that which is enough is longer enough, and that which is satisfying is no longer satisfying.
~ Ann Spangler