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Negative thinking is prevalent, in particular, among so many women in their later years, and, as a result, they live out their lives in discontent. — Louise Hay

Humans are forever discontent - always thinking there are better alternatives to their present circumstances. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different. — Neil Gaiman

It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent — Jerry Bridges

Discontent is the catalyst for change. — Mike Murdock

Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face, When discontent sits heavy at my heart. — Joseph Addison

90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it? — Bob Geldof

Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships. — Samuel Johnson

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. — Eugene V. Debs

Bitterness is anger gone sour, an attitude of deep discontent that poisons our souls and destroys our peace. — Billy Graham

This is what happens when you look back to happiness, this pain, this heart-break, this discontent — Margaret Mitchell

Man hath a weary pilgrimage,
As through the word he wends;
On every stage, from youth to age,
Still discontent attends. — Robert Southey

Tragedy is chic but discontent is dowdy. — Emilie Loring

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. — Plato

I do love her, and that's odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else. — John Steinbeck

We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent — J.I. Packer

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

People who are unhappy in relationships carry about them a distinct air of discontent and isolation. — Patricia Cornwell

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue. — Charles Kingsley

There is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent ... — Jeremiah Burroughs

Discover your own discontent, and be grateful, for without divine discontent there would be no creative force. — Deepak Chopra

There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin. — Garry Kasparov

For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair. — C.V. Wedgwood

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Discontent is good if it makes you long for home, but bad if it makes you doubt the One who prepares a place for you in his home. — Paul David Tripp

Creativity is discontent translated into arts. — Eric Hoffer

The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence. — Lajos Kassak

A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent. — David Guerrero

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent. — Andre Maurois

Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives. — Robert Kennedy

Why are things always happy in Japanese restaurants? Just once, maybe I'd like to try the Sashimi of Discontent, or the Heartbroken Hand Roll — Amy Vansant

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. — Oscar Wilde

Discontent is the seed of ethics. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change. — Saul Alinsky

I used to think I had ambition ... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused. — Rachel Field

All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it. — William, Saroyan

In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment. — Maya Angelou

The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. — Susan B. Anthony

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations. — Berthold Auerbach

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on. — Eric Hoffer

There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessness. Wuthering Heights is a virgin's story. — Elizabeth Hardwick

You're not discontent for wanting to be in a relationship, you're just human. — Cole Ryan

Move thy tongue,
For silence is a sign of discontent. — Elizabeth Cary

It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better. — Susan B. Anthony

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence. — Samuel Johnson

Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions? — Mickey Kaus

When you have no choice, you have no discontent either. — Vivek Shanbhag

There is a kind of perverse unity forming among us, born, I think, of the discontent of all classes of people with the endless frustration of life. — Arthur Miller

Let thy discontents be thy secrets — Benjamin Franklin

The most gifted of [the Proletariate], who might possibly become a nuclei of discontent, are simply marked down by the Thought Police and eliminated. — George Orwell

Principle of Change #1: Discontent + Passion Drive Change — Brett Blumenthal

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

Kennedy saw the insurgency as a anti-colonial, essentially nationalist movement, feeding on social discontent. So you don't shoot people. — Roger Hilsman

Even envy, wants to even the score. — Anthony Liccione

Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward. — Lu Xun

Dependence, she knew, and the longing for more than what you had, led to unhappiness and discontent. — Nora Roberts

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God. — Cyril Cusack

The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent. — William Watson

These fundamental imbalances led them into concentric circles of ever decreasing size: a nautilus shell of their discontent. — John L. Parker Jr.

No his mind is not for rent To any god or government Always hopeful, yet discontent He knows changes aren't permanent But change is — Bradley J. Birzer

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us. — Barack Obama

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor. — Benjamin Franklin

There is no greater disaster than discontent. — Laozi

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself. — Anna Freud

Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent,
Adversity then breeds the discontent. — Robert Herrick

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

I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person. — Franz Kafka

Now is the winter of our discontent. — William Shakespeare

Hello, you've reached the winter of our discontent. — Ethan Hawke

The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company. — John Green

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart. — Francesco Guicciardini

way." You will battle with discontent until you let Christ be all that you need. — Craig Groeschel

We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent. — John Steinbeck

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make. — Eckhart Tolle

One whisper, added to a thousand others, becomes a roar of discontent — Julie Garwood

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress. — Mahatma Gandhi

Noble discontent is the path to heaven. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her. She — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual. — Aneurin Bevan

She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence. — Clive Barker

Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision. — John C. Maxwell

It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us. — Vivien Greene

Literature is the record of our discontent. — Virginia Woolf

What is more miserable than discontent? — William Shakespeare

All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent — John Steinbeck

There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more. — Laozi

He who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair. — Ieyasu Tokugawa

Gratitude is like that. It transforms. It is such a force that it cannot coexist with selfishness, with discouragement, with discontent. — Rachel Jankovic

Keep burning the flame of discontent within you until you get the joy of satisfaction. — Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

The ones that always, always want something better, will never find better. — Anthony Liccione

But the voices of fear and discontent are always the loudest ... — Amy Harmon

Discontent has a creative force in it. — Sunday Adelaja

Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent. — George W. Buck

I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

My real dissatisfaction is with my dissatisfaction. How dare I be so discontent? How dare I? Or being discontent why cannot I shut up about it? — Stephen Fry

One whisper, Judith, added to a thousand others will become a roar of discontent even — Julie Garwood